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We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything

Here's a product feature which the world is going to need a whole lot more of over the coming months and years: default hard budget caps . I'm talking about the feature of pay-by-usage services and APIs that lets you say "after $X/month, cut this thing off and return errors". These need to be hard…

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  1. 2026-10-03 23:34 · Simon Willison's Weblog
    We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything

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