The current AI pricing was always going to go away. It just doesn’t make sense. Microsoft canceled internal Claude Code licenses this week (for whatever reason, even if it’s because they integrated it), Uber blew its entire 2026 AI budget in four months, and GitHub is dropping flat-rate plans across its products. You’ll see the framing “the AI subsidy era is ending” which is a polite way of what everyone’s been doing when they slap AI features into every tier of their product on a bet that infer...