the vibes are right: starting a silicon valley movie club. who would come to a screening of the general magic movie on a friday night? beers, affogatos, & amazing A/V at @useOrb office.

for everyone who’s at @sterngrovefest looking for a billing provider

huge amount of respect to the Cursor team for issuing refunds and taking responsibility 🫡.

3/ spend needs to be *managed*. what happens when pricing gets fundamentally less predictable? you need better visibility, better alerting, more auditability, and this is where Cursor is promising investment. This sort of entitlement-gating is a huge part of what we work on.

2/ product & architecture innovation *can* change cost equations. Just like @vercel can afford to pass on the savings of fluid compute's architecture, for Cursor there's some real magic baked into 'Auto automatically routes to different frontier models'. Hence, use of Auto is.

To understand the Cursor change, let's go back to the obvious principles:. 1/ at *scale*, you cannot escape marginal costs. Cursor isn't trying to hide the fact that they're paying frontier models per token. Sure, they may have some negotiated rates but they need to passthrough.

one of the central tensions in navigating pricing - especially for (pro) consumer products is that there's a bias towards simplicity - $20/mo sounds plain and simple. but product cost equations are just more complicated: the fastest growing companies are those like @Replit, not.

first and foremost: grace where it's due. pricing is really hard (ref @dok2001 here: because it involves understanding:.(a) the value your product delivers.(b) the behaviors you want to incentivize, by audience.(c) your cost & margin profile. all across.

a 🧵 on thoughts on this blog post and pricing from @mntruell and the team @cursor_ai from everything we've learned helping AI companies price @useOrb :

sent from yahoo mail on android is an odd sign off, even in 2022

The @cursor_ai and @SlackHQ integration really made the workflow click for me.

what’s the lo-mo-so of the AI era?

RT @dok2001: Pricing and billing: the toughest challenges in computer science.

RT @useOrb: Welcoming @basetenco as an Orb customer! Baseten makes it easier for teams to serve and scale ML models in prod, reducing comp….

what an understatement 🫡.

RT @netcapgirl: the way i see it, you’re either monitoring the situation with me . or you’re monitoring the situation against me.

RT @divya_venn: You will never learn to be consistent as long as you’re addicted to novelty. The foundation of consistency is routine.

which AI model is actually creative? o3 is incredibly disappointing in this regard.

📍 @supabase is quickly becoming the database choice for builders, especially those building with AI. To support flexible and fair pricing, Supabase went with @useOrb - the billing engine that lets you move your pricing at the pace of AI.

RT @dalexeenko: @LakeAustinBlvd Need to move gate vendors from seats/licenses sold billing to consumption billing. Fix the incentive struct….