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Eshu Marneedi
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Technology blogger, unskilled jester, raconteur. Writer of stories long and short. Pastry connoisseur.
I wrote about OpenAI and Anthropic’s token subsidization problem and why the current subscription plans will become unsustainable in (probably) the near future: https://eshumarneedi.com/2026/04/28/ais-token-subsidization-problem.html
AI’s Token Subsidization Problem
Berber Jin, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (Apple News+): OpenAI recently missed its own targets for new users and revenue, stumbles that have raised concern among some company leaders about whether it will be able to support its massive spending on data centers.
From what I see, there seems no way to completely cancel a subscription you’ve “committed” to, even if you’re willing to pay a cancellation fee (like Adobe). Only “if your payment fails” will you be released from the commitment (which would bar you from any IAPs). 🖕 https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/27/app-store-monthly-subscriptions-12-month-commitment/
OpenAI’s biggest problem is that they’re giving compute away to power users and normal people don’t want to pay for ChatGPT. This is not going to end well. Anthropic correctly identified this and effectively stopped subsidizing Opus 4.7 tokens, especially for users on lower tiers.
New article: Apple’s company culture straddles stability and ambition. After a 15-year run of stability and predictability, Tim Cook has given his successor a company aching for ambition. I wrote about Cook’s highs, lows, and what this means for John Ternus’s tenure. https://eshumarneedi.com/2026/04/26/welcome-back-think-different.html
Stress-testing some new code in my app and currently discovering features I didn’t even know it had. (It converts the citation Markdown to an AttributedString, allowing you to pass emphasis, links, and anything else into the text fields.)
New article: Apple’s company culture straddles stability and ambition. After a 15-year run of stability and predictability, Tim Cook has given his successor a company aching for ambition. I wrote about Cook’s highs, lows, and what this means for John Ternus’s tenure. https://eshumarneedi.com/2026/04/26/welcome-back-think-different.html
oh? this is inefficient code? but I used Garry Tan’s GStack and Claude Opus 4.7 on ultrathink!
Props to GPT-5.5, it gave me such a good edit of my Tim Cook/John Ternus article in 57 seconds while Opus took 10 minutes and came up with almost nothing.
(I obviously review all edits, and none of them change the content of my human writing.)
I am of the personal opinion that Gurman should issue an apology — or at least, an acknowledgment of his error — to the Financial Times editors. They were right, almost on the money, and he was not. https://daringfireball.net/2026/04/delicious_claim_chowder_regarding_the_cook-ternus_ceo_transition
