Working notes from a small studio shipping pay-once software. What we got right, what we got wrong, what we'd never repeat. Updated weekly.
Paying users churning to DeepSeek, a 73% thinking-budget drop via the redact-thinking header, and Anthropic's denial. Cited with the Laurenzo dataset, The Register, and GitHub issue #42796.
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