Why I'm reconsidering my AI subscription: The burden of unintended creations
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Summary
The author reflects on their experience building numerous AI-powered projects (mostly with Claude), realizing that despite creating many tools—including a SaaS product, a news outlet, and various scripts—most are not useful, maintainable, or worth the time, attention, and token costs. They express regret over accidentally building things they didn't intend to, and question whether the AI subscription is worth it given the burden of maintaining these creations.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledExcept for the SaaS, almost none of this is useful and I don't want to maintain any of it.
I accidentally run a news outlet which is surely a liability.
I can't afford to maintain any of them, not in terms of time, commitment, belief, attention or willingness to spend on tokens.
I didn't mean to build most of these things.
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