Relying on rented computational infrastructure subjects developers to continuous platform rug-pulls.
As cloud and AI providers aggressively monetize their services, researchers and developers must own physical hardware to escape arbitrary pricing cuts, API deactivations, and usage limits.
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Google's sudden deactivation of the open-source Gemini CLI to force users onto the closed-source, metered Antigravity CLI represents a classic platform rug-pull.
It explains how owning custom, physical bare-metal hardware relieves independent developers of the compounding financial friction of cloud-computing rentals.
Developers relying on flat-rate login credentials can face sudden, unilateral access cuts as AI providers aggressively shift to per-token monetization.