I Paid for the Pro Tier and Still Did the Work Myself
The subscription didn't write the thing. I did. The tool just removed the blank page, and that's worth the price.
I renewed a Pro subscription and caught myself thinking it would do the work. It didn't. I still wrote the draft, made the calls, fixed the bugs. What the subscription actually bought was the removal of the starting friction, the blank page, the 'where do I begin' that used to eat the first twenty minutes of every task.
That's a real purchase, just not the one the marketing sells. The tool is a lever on my own effort, not a replacement for it. Once I stopped expecting it to do the job and started using it to start the job, the money made sense.
The danger is the opposite delusion: that because I paid, the output is done. It isn't. The Pro tier gives you more attempts and longer context; it doesn't give you a finished product. The person who pays and walks away gets a pile of almost-right drafts.
So I kept the subscription and lowered my expectations of it while raising what I do with it. The price is for momentum, not for outcomes. Named honestly, that's a subscription worth keeping.