August 27, 2025
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes
Just as AI coding assistants become deeply embedded in software engineering workflows the vendors are increasing prices and setting rate limits. What can be done?
Agentic IDEs and AI copilots are increasingly popular with professional software engineers and indie developers. However, tools like Claude Code, Replit, and Cursor are still maturing and poorly communicated changes to pricing policies have been met with significant blowback.
For dev teams that have implemented workflows built around these apps, these changes set an unwanted precedent. If prices and feature availability can change drastically overnight for key tools, how can you rely on them going forward?
Bait and switch
Take Claude Code.
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August 27, 2025
