The blog post reads like AI buzzword bingo. They had a clear product vision helping developers collaborate, but now they're chasing the AI hype train with vague promises about "secure AI sandboxes". I've been using CodeSandbox for a year and this feels like watching a solid dev tools company get sacrificed on the altar of AI FOMO.
Codesandbox jumped the shark about 3 years ago when they pivoted from simple client side sandboxes to full featured devboxes running on their servers, and incidentally started charging people credits for sharing.<p>This had the effect of breaking thousands, if not millions, of demos around the web, which were the main source of their word of mouth customers.<p>I understand why they did it - I'm sure their short term profits went up massively.<p>But they had caught magic before then, with a perfect blend of features and simplicity, and they sacrificed it to the gods of profit.<p>AI enshitification is just the natural next step in this process.
"Together AI has quickly grown into the leading hosting platform for AI"<p>Lol. Definitely not. I went through pricing and large scale deployment of an AI system last week.<p>Together AI is at the bottom of the pile.<p>These are much better options in terms of both price / performance / models etc:
<a href="https://cerebras.ai/" rel="nofollow">https://cerebras.ai/</a>
<a href="https://deepinfra.com/" rel="nofollow">https://deepinfra.com/</a>
<a href="https://hyperbolic.xyz/" rel="nofollow">https://hyperbolic.xyz/</a><p>Goes to show how frothy the market still is in AI. Large sums for free to buy up companies.