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Fun fact: the $20/month subscription fee for ChatGPT Pro - which set the standard for at least a couple of years - really was an arbitrary decision made based on a Google form: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/12/nick-turley/

Wish I'd hit that one the other day on this one, which I cared a lot more about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48228321