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UPDATE: I took from our conversations with the proposer today that the team is updating their tier limits. I'm going to review my vote after the new pricing models are effective, and a comparison to the tier offerings by ChatGPT, Cursor, Clause and others.


The free version of the product allows up to 30 chat messages and 30 code completions, as listed on the webpage:
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This is not even rookie numbers for an active developer, who already has access to tools like ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude and possibly others. It means that the treasury, contrary to its public good nature, is basically funding a privately-owned, paid product, at a total price tag of ~$320K.

For comparison, ChatGPT charges $20 per month for the complete package, and Cursor costs the same. I should note that ChatGPT is extremely well-versed at Polkadot SDK, I would expect the same if not better from Cursor, which supports ink! and Solidity too.

I shared this feedback with the proposer earlier in private discussions, and my stance remains the same: they should commit to making this product virtually free for the Polkadot developer community. If that means that the treasury would need to cover the maintenance costs, so be it. Covering those costs through product payments doesn’t seem feasible to me anyway.

I'm nay until this product is positioned as a total public good.

Best regards,
kukabi | Helikon

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