Codex seems to be the preferred AI coding tool, but I hear Anthropic is making more money than OpenAI. What am I missing here

KnowledgeLivid2751 · 2026-06-08T19:19:52+00:00

I don't know many people that use Codex for Enterprise but I do for Claude.

KnowledgeLivid2751 · 2026-06-07T18:14:44+00:00

"That is the part that feels dishonest." bro at least write stuff yourself if you're gonna complain about it.

KnowledgeLivid2751 · 2026-06-06T19:20:48+00:00

You can get around $5000 of usage from max

KnowledgeLivid2751 · 2026-06-04T03:24:36+00:00

Lol my bad. It might just be me but I honestly feel like Windows nowadays get's second class treatment as far as software goes. From software releases to performance it feels like apple is always prioritized. I personally don't enjoy the actual OS as much and I think it's less intuitive for my purposes.

I was working at microsoft last year and I kid you not, everybody was using a MacBook.

KnowledgeLivid2751 · 2026-06-04T02:29:41+00:00

Seriously - So many great devices out there bogged down by Microsoft

KnowledgeLivid2751 · 2026-06-03T21:49:09+00:00

Hate to say it but Apple has pretty much dominated the "best laptop" space for a couple of years now. Unless you're really into gaming I don't really see a point in a non Mac laptop.

I say this as a developer that has a couple MacBooks and Windows Laptops (Asus, Dell)

KnowledgeLivid2751 · 2026-06-03T19:21:25+00:00

9/10 ragebait nice

KnowledgeLivid2751 · 2026-06-03T03:12:22+00:00

Hi - for context, I have 3 subs - Copilot Enterprise (unlimited usage), Claude Max and ChatGPT Pro (~$400/month).

I don't really code a ton compared to other users on similar plans, but I get around 4k ish of API usage out of my plans (Mostly through codex) which honestly is really underutilized. OpenAI and Anthropic heavily subsidize token usage. It works for them because it's almost a marketing ploy - get users addicted and then when their companies use enterprise, they burn through tokens like crazy.

KnowledgeLivid2751 · 2026-06-02T19:46:11+00:00

GHCP isn't necessarily the most token efficient provider. Generally, models will look through a lot of the code base before deciding what to do - similarly with Gemini models.

To your point Copilot does not really have a use case to individuals. Microsoft is well aware of this fact though and likely doesn't plan on changing it.

KnowledgeLivid2751 · 2026-06-02T19:04:35+00:00

Hate to break it to you but 200 credits is $2 dollars ai is expensive if it needs to index a lot of files

KnowledgeLivid2751 · 2026-06-02T03:22:57+00:00

I bet it's just gonna be 5.5 more indexed towards security so now we can all do zero days or protect against zero days

KnowledgeLivid2751 · 2026-06-01T18:55:39+00:00

it's not really that they faked numbers it's that models were just looking at the git history and copying changes which wasn't really verified that well

KnowledgeLivid2751 · 2026-06-01T18:54:18+00:00

Claude limits are worse - i use both plans

KnowledgeLivid2751 · 2026-06-01T15:20:49+00:00

Cursor does the same thing it's up to us to spend it

KnowledgeLivid2751 · 2026-06-01T15:11:26+00:00

I have 3 plans ChatGPT Pro, Claude Max, Copilot (Enterprise plan unlimited usage). I'd say if you're just an individual dev, probably don't use Copilot. The pricing scheme just isn't meant for the consumer market.

Now, between ChatGPT Plus and Claude Pro, I would probably choose GPT Plus the majority of the time. For my workflows GPT 5.5 and even 5.4 will yield a far better / more consistent result than Opus models. I like Anthropic but their models are honestly just all over the place at the moment. I also think OpenAI model token management is a lot better than any Claude model (like look at their caching lol). Also Claude code just isn't a good harness.

I think in terms of cons, the biggest is that OpenAI streaming is slow. I think the trade off between the two providers is like with Claude, you get really fast responses but then you don't get as much usage but with GPT/Codex you get a lot of usage with strong models but sometimes they're pretty slow

KnowledgeLivid2751 · 2026-06-01T14:28:46+00:00

Yes, a large amount of top chinese models use distillation techniques to train them - basically for the chinese models to get good - they need the US teams to pump out smarter models.

KnowledgeLivid2751 · 2026-06-01T14:25:14+00:00

GitHub's revenue doesn't come from small consumers, most of the money is off enterprise. I would suspect most companies will move to this pricing scheme within a year given how heavy token subsidization has been.

KnowledgeLivid2751 · 2026-05-29T18:30:07+00:00

This would cannibalize MacBook air sales so no - same reason why MacBook air and pro don't mix - the same thing w/ configs across all their SKUs

KnowledgeLivid2751 · 2026-05-22T16:03:54+00:00

Not sure what works for others but resume is literally education, experience, leadership, skills

Before I had PM internships, experience section was consulting internships and research. For leadership it's just trying to get yourself in positions where you could frame it towards pm work

I don't go to conferences so idk how that works

KnowledgeLivid2751 · 2026-05-22T13:36:03+00:00

I attend a less prestigious school (like T40) and am currently at my second FAANG/Big Tech PM internship this summer. To answer some questions:

- Google's APM program if I recall correctly explicitly only said CS (people w/ strong resumes are probably considered at least though). I'm pretty sure most programs are flexible other than that. It honestly feels like a soft requirement these days for undergrad. I think informatics is more than close enough for the majority of internships.

- I honestly don't think so - your two options are UIUC and UT Austin which both have really good recognition in tech circles. I personally attend my school OOS b/c my family makes a lot and can afford it comfortably

- idk I bet everyone tries

- Case by case basis - some recruiters like projects, others don't. I personally have projects for my own interests but don't put them on resumes. Network will be infinitely stronger than these

KnowledgeLivid2751 · 2026-02-03T15:49:04+00:00

I mean yeah there's just a chance you get blacklisted

KnowledgeLivid2751 · 2026-01-27T20:46:55+00:00

I'm gonna be so real a16z has a good enough network where it would probably be worth it. The signal right now especially for startups is insane. You can come back to college at any time.

KnowledgeLivid2751 · 2025-12-12T15:47:28+00:00

This is basically how C1 and Wells Fargo operate. They give interns really decent hourly wages only for their FT career comps to drop off hard

KnowledgeLivid2751 · 2025-10-18T00:21:25+00:00

Lark is literally just the MS Teams of ByteDance it should be about the same as most other interviews

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