>The business modelling behind it must be quite intense, I hope this doesn't blow up in JetBrains' face
Historically... this tends to work out. Reminds me of Gmail initially allowing massive inbox. YouTube doing free hosting. All the various untethered LAMP hosting...
If necessary they'll add an anti-abuse policy or whatnot to mitigate the heavy users.
The sophisticated modeling is basically "just get going" with a guesstimate and adjust if needed.
I doubt that pricing structure will sink any ships. It's going to be about utility.
> Historically... this tends to work out. Reminds me of Gmail initially allowing massive inbox. YouTube doing free hosting. All the various untethered LAMP hosting...
One difference I see: storage capacity and compute performance aren't increasing like they had in the past, so companies can't rely on these costs to dramatically drop in the future to offset bleeding cash initially to gain market share.
The cost of inference[0] for the same quality has been dropping by nearly 10x year over year. I’m not sure when that trend will slow down, but there’s still been a lot of low-hanging fruit around algorithmic efficiency.
Sure. I agree that usage/demand is likely to outgrow compute performance.
But.. a lot of the other dynamics that make this game winnable still stand. Maybe they will need to go with a meter eventually or some other pricing structure... but it will work out.
Historically... this tends to work out. Reminds me of Gmail initially allowing massive inbox. YouTube doing free hosting. All the various untethered LAMP hosting...
If necessary they'll add an anti-abuse policy or whatnot to mitigate the heavy users.
The sophisticated modeling is basically "just get going" with a guesstimate and adjust if needed.
I doubt that pricing structure will sink any ships. It's going to be about utility.