Critique of Expiring Paid Credits in 'Intelligence as a Service' (XaaS)
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maytc
10mo ago· 1 min readenOpinion
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Summary
The article criticizes the practice of paid credits expiring after a year in services like 'Intelligence as a Service' (XaaS), highlighting the risks of dependency on such tools, especially for personal use. It expresses skepticism about market forces improving billing mechanisms.
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The only hope is that 'the market / invisible hand' forces actors to implement more forgiving billing mechanisms and rules via competition or eventual diminished demand.
Anyways, a very good reason to not depend that much on these tools. Especially on a personal level (i.e. if your programming/moat/skill depends on these tools and you go broke for a time, you can get seriously fucked).
Unfortunately that's what one gets for offloading intelligence into a XaaS (Intelligence as a Service?, we already got IaaS though).
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