AI Reddit — 2026-05-20#

The Buzz#

The biggest shockwave today is a severe reality check on AI API and subscription pricing. GitHub Copilot’s new token-based billing has users staring at 10x cost increases, while Google’s new Gemini 3.5 Flash is inexplicably priced 14x higher than its predecessor, completely abandoning the “cheap and fast” ethos. As developers scramble to cancel bloated subscription stacks, the contrasting triumph of a user running DeepSeek-V4-Flash locally on a $2,500 rig of legacy RTX 2080 Tis perfectly captures the community’s sudden, aggressive pivot toward cost-control and hardware independence.