Claude Opus 4.7 and the Beginning of the End of AI Abundance

I spent an entire month without a response from Anthropic after my API access went dark. Not a billing problem. Not a bug on my end. Just silence. Thirty days rerouting workflows, rewriting prompts for other models, explaining to my team why the system we'd built on top of Claude had stopped working overnight. I'm telling you this because today — with Opus 4.7 trending at the same time as an article about "the beginning of AI scarcity" — it finally clicked that that month wasn't an accident. It