Not really a big problem. Switch to KIMI, Qwen, GLM. You’ll get 95% quality of GPT or Anthropic for a 10th of a price. I feel like the real dependency is more mental, more of a habit but if you actually dip your toes outside OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini from time to time, you realise that the actual difference in code is not huge if prompted in a good way. Maybe you’ll have to tell it to do something twice and it won’t be a one shot, but it’s really not an issue at all.
I think both? Limited offer stopped and price increase. But the point was that is now a similar price to ChatGPT and Claude code, and not 10th of the price.
Bit of a hype madhouse whenever a new model is released, but it's pretty easy to filter out simple hype from people showing reproducible experiments, specific configs for llama.cpp, github links etc.
