Unless these people start offering free, unlimited inference for a cautionary period so we can test the new model without an up-front (re-)investment, I am not touching this load-bearing pile of neuralese spew with a ten thousand token pole.-

Are you going to post the same comment on every AI article on HN? How is this useful to the discussion?

This, is the first time I have not only made this comment, but opined on this issue at all, actually.-