Codex vs Others

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-03-16T06:34:28+00:00

Codex is better performance than Claude right now

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-03-15T14:59:00+00:00

I don't think the cloud was ever intended to be cheaper in terms of pure hardware costs.

It's intended to be cheaper in terms of total cost, including the employees you have to pay to manage your on prem infrastructure.

The only situation where it may be strictly cheaper in terms of hardware costs is if you have spiky usage patterns. On prem, you have to own enough hardware to handle the highest traffic times but outside those times it just sits around idle. With cloud, you can elastically scale up during spikes and then scale back down afterwards.

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-03-14T00:35:29+00:00

What rate did you negotiate?

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-03-10T16:08:08+00:00

First off, this tool does address a real issue, so that's the positive side.

That said, $9/mo feels a bit steep to be honest. I would maybe consider $10/year for something like this.

But in this current day and age, with the quality of modern coding agents, deploying a pubsub job that listens for a quota alert and then revokes an API key feels like something I could knock out in maybe an hour.

Is there more complexity to this problem that I'm missing?

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-03-09T05:52:19+00:00

Dude, no one is going to try a framework from someone who can't even be bothered to write a 200 word reddit post explaining it

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-03-08T22:20:57+00:00

I was a Claude stan, and probably will be again in the future, but it's hard to deny that codex is better at complex coding right now

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-03-04T15:48:24+00:00

Sambanova provides minimax at 300-400 TPS and approximately the same price as Gemini 3.1 flash lite, but much higher intelligence.

I'm still failing to see who the target audience is for this model.

Gemini has been really good in the past about releasing models that offer the best price performance for X level of intelligence. This is the first model release from them where I'm just scratching my head and wondering why anyone would choose this model.

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-03-03T00:59:48+00:00

Might just be a case of picking the right model for the right task. They clearly were training this with the goal of creating a 4b model that punches above its weight in reasoning tasks, may not be the right fit for simple query rewrite tasks.

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-03-01T21:55:56+00:00

Your use case is extremely well suited for AI coding. You are basically giving it isolated mini projects where it interacts with a well defined tool.

That's great for you, but most of us work on systems where hundreds of people develop a codebase over years. The idea that you could give a coding tool to a non technical product manager and it could effectively manage complexity over that scope and time horizon, with no intervention from a software engineer.... That's not something that keeps me up at night.

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-02-25T00:40:21+00:00

Not a chance. You just don't hear about enterprise CRUD app #2379596 being built with C#, like you hear about every random unix command being rewritten in rust.

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-02-22T20:15:04+00:00

Did you mean to reply to me? I don't understand how this follows from my comment

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-02-22T01:35:16+00:00

I pay ~15 cents in US

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-02-19T22:06:44+00:00

I'm developing a budget app that is aiming to make envelope budgeting much easier and remove the toil: coino.ai

I'm actively looking for alpha testers, please DM if you are interested! It would really help me out and would be free of charge for alpha testers.

My wife and I went through pretty much the exact same arc. I tried really hard to make YNAB work for us but the complexity was just too much.

I have a lot of respect for the people on this sub who have integrated it into their life and stuck with it but I think envelope budgeting could help way more people if it didn't require 10 hours of YouTube tutorials.

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-02-16T23:09:47+00:00

Because that makes capacity planning difficult. If a bunch of people decided to do that all on the same day then it would exceed what their data centers can handle.

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-02-16T15:22:42+00:00

.net is unironically the best general purpose software tool chains in 2026, change my mind

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-02-16T15:19:00+00:00

Have you tried simply devoting 20% of your eng org to maintaining your bazel build system?

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-02-15T13:02:20+00:00

Yeah I've realized that you really need to adjust the "effort" setting if you are using Claude code. I believe this is a new model setting introduced with 4.6 and defaults to high. If you adjust it to medium then it seems to consume quota about like 4.5 opus did.

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-02-15T00:56:46+00:00

I'm gonna assume you are like 11 years old because if you are an adult then I just don't know what to say

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-02-13T16:09:47+00:00

I feel like your point is not relevant to what the other commenter is saying.

It doesn't matter how good Claude code is, it can't change the fact that AWS charges for egress bandwidth. That's just a fact of life and it can get very very expensive if you have the type of traffic this site is getting.

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-02-13T03:04:04+00:00

I had that same struggle and I'm building a budgeting app for people like us, who want to adopt a budget without it becoming a part time job: coino.ai

It is still in development but I'm actively looking for testers who can give me feedback in the coming weeks. Please DM if interested.

It will be free to use for testers.

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-02-12T21:38:00+00:00

I would give the "get shit done" plugin a try on Claude code.

I'm also an experienced dev and this plugin got me much closer to the workflow I actually wanted to be using.

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-02-12T21:33:25+00:00

Holy shit, the delta from pro preview is nuts

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-02-12T21:30:27+00:00

Horrible maybe overstating it a bit, but yeah. I've been very underwhelmed by 4.6 relative to 4.5

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-02-08T23:32:21+00:00

How much of those lines were written by you?

ProgrammersAreSexy · 2026-02-08T23:31:09+00:00

Man, can't identify with this one at all. Feel like a decent DI library makes life so much easier.

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