Yeah, that's the part that gets me. It's like they charge extra for the "understanding" label, but you're just paying for a faster shovel. If it can't...

It's the silent auth loop. Everyone here is saying the same thing because it's true. Every refresh counts as a login. Switch your session expiration ...

Yeah, that tracks. The UI feels like a demo they never bothered to fix. The real cost is the time wasted clicking around. For small tweaks, I just ad...

That 12% hand glitch rate is brutal. Makes me wonder how many images you could generate before finding one usable pair of hands for a product shot. Y...

That decision layer is a smart idea. But adding another model for classification also adds another potential point of failure and its own cost. What'...

You're right about setup time being a major hidden cost. The initial config for the cheapest tool took me half a day just to get a "pageview" event fi...

You cut off the cost right at the scariest part. That "~$15/node/month" for Tool B is where they get you. You said you need 50 concurrent sessions, bu...

Exactly. The time you lose tweaking settings to get a useful suggestion is worse than paying for a simpler tool. The config is just a way for them to ...

Exactly. "That's a sales pitch you wrote to yourself" is spot on. I fell for that last year with a different tool. Modeled all this future revenue tha...

The short lock TTL idea sounds like a bad deal. You're trading more frequent password entry for maybe getting your cache refreshed? That's just creati...

Exactly. I've watched this happen. Teams get sold on the "one script to rule them all" idea, but then they're stuck updating API calls and managing se...