It's not rug pulling, it's simple price anchoring. They'll degrade when it makes financial sense for them. You will pay for it. There's no way around it besides self hosting or using reality metered endpoints like openrouter.
That's exactly what happens. The algo does not judge how hurtful a rabbithole may be - it optimizes for engagement with some moderation sprinkled on top. I've tried to make my facebook feed palatable for a couple months and eventually passed up on trying. I'd rather IM my family about cat photos than engage with their fringe political views. Same goes for colleagues on LinkedIn.
Is this true? I'm getting a feeling that most of this is adding external stucture when coding agents already provide a framework for it.
I've had moderate success in throwing a braindump at the llm, asking it to do a .md with a plan and then going with the implementation for it. Specialized thinking prompts seem like overkill (or dumbo-level coding skills are enough for me).