Vol. I · No. 1 · THE FIRST, TOKEN ISSUE · AD MMXXVI
Feature StoryESSAY № 01 — IT'S ALL TOO EASY TO FORGET

It's all too easy to forget

When Claude announced that AFK agent usage would draw from a separate, billable pool of API credit, the backlash was swift — and so was the reversal. But the real question isn't whether Anthropic walked it back. It's whether we'll keep looking for alternatives, or simply forget.

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