Really hope I don't get my open source maintainer Pro plan bumped down to free.

Microsoft (unsurprisingly) has won the race to zero.

We have had them 'embrace' the wider developer and open-source ecosystem by buying GitHub.

Then they have 'extended' this with partnerships and deep developer integrations in VSCode and exclusive partnerships with OpenAI which in the background was used to build the best tools on the Microsoft platform with added enhancements and extensions.

Now in the new intelligence age, we finally have the definition of what 'Extinguish' looks like to competitors wanting to compete with the best tools available, For free.

I'd prefer something where I can bring my own model and pay the API costs directly, rather than yet another $20+/m/dev fee

The free plan is not going to work for professional coding

They need more training data.

This is great as an entry point to programming and also good for startups.

and with the recent addition to o1 in Cursor the price of a mid-senior is set to around $20.

It has been a while since my business needed to hire more senior engineers for a while, I only needed around 1 or 2 and the rest as interns using Copilot or Cursor.

This is a great time to build projects and get into programming for everyone.