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Simon Willison·· 12 d ago

We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything

We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything

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Here's a product feature which the world is going to need a whole lot more of over the coming months and years: default hard budget caps . I'm talking about the feature of pay-by-usage services and APIs that lets you say "after $X/month, cut this thing off and return errors". These need to be hard limits.

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Not admittedSum of both 68 < twice the threshold 152

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Source: Simon Willison · simonwillison.net