Where I work:

Developers very rarely blow their limits, except when they're experimenting on purpose.

Most non-developers are out of tokens by the half of the week, and need to use usage credits for the remainder.

To me there is clearly a better target demographic for AI.

I have several $200 subscriptions as a developer/founder. I used to blow through all of their limits when the limits were quite high. As I progressively learned the limitations, and what to make of them to get useful results, I may be left with 50% of weekly usage still unused. Some weeks it's even more.

And yes, when I get a crazy idea and want to experiment, harness will plow through multiple accounts + openrouter budget in 3 days. But such crazy experiments are rare, they're not 'normal' usage.

This is a very insightful dynamic.

Probably reinforces that we’ve already surpassed the frontier threshold for LLM usability in software development and can now focus on cost and personalization. To make a comparison, no one is making a better machine vision app for hot dog classification - we hit diminishing returns 10 years ago on that front.

But also scary for both investors and the working class: AI companies want to facilitate the concentration of capital even further into the hands of the ownership class. Will they succeed?