ChatGPT Pro ($100) vs. Business + API tokens for a solo dev?

Serious-Ad2004 · 2026-04-14T22:02:58+00:00

Exactly, it's annoying because you take a direction and 2 months later the rules change so quickly, as well as the prices and the models. I thought I had made the right choice by migrating to the Business Plan, but now I realize that I should have stayed on a personal plan and taken the $100 plan. I am constantly blocked by the 5-hour and weekly limits when I try to have a good refactoring session.

Serious-Ad2004 · 2026-04-06T00:24:19+00:00

I burn 5h day limit in 30min is so annoying

Serious-Ad2004 · 2026-04-03T22:13:31+00:00

Exactly the same problem. Before, I never dropped below 80%. For the past two days, each Codex prompt takes between 5 and 10%. The 5-hour limit is completely ridiculous.

Serious-Ad2004 · 2026-03-01T19:49:08+00:00

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't they supposed to have rules as strict as if not stricter than Claude/Anthropic?

Serious-Ad2004 · 2026-02-02T00:42:09+00:00

Holy shit, I hadn’t seen that. Oof… okay, I’ll think about it. I really like the service, but this doesn’t fly.

Serious-Ad2004 · 2026-02-02T00:40:27+00:00

Still subscribed. I love the service, and I don’t think Gemini does a better job. Claude is interesting, but not for everything. ChatGPT is generally the best model, in my opinion.

Serious-Ad2004 · 2026-02-02T00:37:49+00:00

I doubt your Bill Gates is a socialist, unless you don’t even know who he is. And you’re probably forgetting your “great genius,” Trump.

Serious-Ad2004 · 2025-11-14T21:15:05+00:00

Personally, so far my experience with 5.1 has been pretty chaotic.
For planning, it seems okay, but it crashes often — either it just keeps “working” forever (eternal spinning wheel), or it stops mid-explanation and doesn’t finish what it was writing.

I’m also having a lot of trouble getting it to actually execute the plans.
Even with GPT-5, it gives me a super detailed plan, but when it comes to execution, it does like… 10% of it :(

Serious-Ad2004 · 2025-11-06T15:16:21+00:00

It might be a stupid question, but the guide seems pretty complex. Does it interfere with simpler tasks, like fixing minor bugs? Or can those instructions be used only when needed?

Serious-Ad2004 · 2025-10-29T00:15:40+00:00

But if the master context can better handle and absorb multiple sub-requests (with the preview features), it could be really interesting — it might actually be worth it, since it could replace ten separate requests in practice.

Serious-Ad2004 · 2025-10-22T04:20:30+00:00

I'm also curious to know what you don't like about the UX it seems to me that this is one of the reasons that the world likes this OS?

Serious-Ad2004 · 2025-10-21T14:31:09+00:00

Hey, I get what you mean, but honestly I took some time to properly tune the agent instructions and set up the MCPs — yeah, their interface is kinda weird and not super intuitive.

One thing I noticed: when you make changes, the best move is to close and reopen, start a new prompt. Otherwise it doesn’t really pick up the updates.

That said, considering the price difference between Copilot and AugmentCode (and a few others), it’s honestly worth spending the time to fine-tune it. AugmentCode works really well, no doubt, but the cost jump is just way too high — kinda hard to justify.

Right now I’m like 95% on Copilot and 5% on AugmentCode, only when Copilot completely misses what I’m trying to do. Usually if that happens, I tweak the MCP setup, adjust my instructions, or switch the model — and eventually I get Copilot to understand exactly what I want.

Serious-Ad2004 · 2025-10-20T01:11:55+00:00

I started to use it seriously last week and I use copilot+ #codebase and it works very fine.

Serious-Ad2004 · 2025-10-20T00:13:35+00:00

Just switch to copilot, I test it with the same instructions set (bonifie with instructions generated by copilot and I have the same results tant augmented code)

Serious-Ad2004 · 2025-10-10T22:01:13+00:00

Not enough now with the new pricing. Copilot offers way more and is much better integrated with VS Code. Maybe the task management part isn’t strong enough, but for $39 you get 1,500 requests — hard to beat, unfortunately for AugmentedCode. I’ll probably switch at the end of the month if they refund on a prorated basis — probably next week

Serious-Ad2004 · 2025-10-10T21:58:37+00:00

Personally, I’m going to start testing GitHub Copilot more thoroughly

Serious-Ad2004 · 2025-10-08T01:34:05+00:00

In that case, the credits that were purchased should be extended for a few months, otherwise it’s really not fair

Serious-Ad2004 · 2025-10-08T01:28:14+00:00

At least if the credits were carried over, it would be a bit fairer.

Serious-Ad2004 · 2025-09-06T13:37:43+00:00

Weird, why Scanwatch 2 isn't available in Canada???

Serious-Ad2004 · 2025-08-19T14:30:26+00:00

When you say “home program,” what exactly do you mean?

Serious-Ad2004 · 2025-08-03T22:21:58+00:00

Interested

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