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The circle of life (lemmy.ml)
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[โ€“] shuffle3765@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Because it's a proxy metric for adoption. Currently you generally want your engineers to be using it as much as you can afford to so that they all learn and improve and adapt existing processes etc

[โ€“] deeves@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

Also, I've been noticing more and more APIs are adopting a policy where they get rid of any unused credits that you've paid for at the end of the month, creating a 'use it or lose it' FOMO mentality.

All very normal and sane.