Who can actually afford AI tools now?

👤 Dora Czerna
📅 2026-03-24

They arrive with open arms and leave with your wallet. That’s not by accident. It’s the playbook.

You notice it only in retrospect, and with increasing frequency. A tool you’d started to take for granted, something you’d quietly woven into your process, turns out to have been in a probationary period all along. It seems the welcome invitation had an expiry date.A pricing update arrives. The feature you’d come to depend on is still there, technically, but now it’s rationed, gated, or… Full Product UX article at UX Collective »

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