We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by Simon Willison's Weblog at 03 Oct, 23:34 UTC

Here's a product feature which the world is going to need a whole lot more of over the coming months and years: default hard budget caps. I'm talking about the feature of pay-by-usage services and APIs that lets you say "after $X/month, cut this thing off and return errors". These need to be hard…