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Cloud and tool cost problems

3 problems, longest running first. The list grows every day.

ProblemThis week
Vendor lock-in makes switching tools costlyvLLM, AWS, Kubernetes, Cloudflare, Qwen, Hugging Face8d activeSeen on GitHub issues, Hacker News, Reddit+33 posts in the last 7 days, 1 the 7 days before (rising)
Tool prices rise faster than the value they giveGitHub Copilot, Perplexity, Apache Airflow, Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor7d activeSeen on Hacker News, App Store reviews+22 posts in the last 7 days, 2 the 7 days before (steady)
LLM token costs are hard to predict and controlClaude, Codex, Qwen, Anthropic, LlamaIndex, GitHub5d activeSeen on GitHub issues, Hacker News+11 post in the last 7 days, 1 the 7 days before (steady)

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