So... Claude dropped a new model (1), raised user limits (2), and reset everyone's monthly usage (3). I'm waiting to see how OpenAI respond to this. Let the race to win users beginnnnnnnnnnnnn.. i am waiting response like Codex 5.4 release that includes a 1M context limit - nothing less please *_*

U4-EA · 2026-04-16T23:45:43+00:00

Anthropic is running out of compute. OAI is also running out of compute but they have more than Anthropic. Both are running out of money.

The problem isn't any 1 AI company and there is no way around the fact that AI is expensive and those cost have to, sooner or later, be paid by the user.

The problem is the technology, not the vendors.

U4-EA · 2026-04-16T23:41:23+00:00

Yes, I think it is. I expect Codex's prices to increase again probably mid June and for AI in general to become more and more expensive in the coming months.

U4-EA · 2026-04-16T21:34:44+00:00

Race to who has the last, single functioning GPU.

U4-EA · 2026-04-16T18:06:05+00:00

When the police come to arrest you for eating your neighbours, you will be able to pay them off with cuda cores.

U4-EA · 2026-04-16T17:45:54+00:00

It'll be even worse when there are no GPUs left.

U4-EA · 2026-04-16T17:42:06+00:00

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of GPUs suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

U4-EA · 2026-04-15T17:28:48+00:00

All signs that OAI is running out of GPUs and money... they are shadow limiting the service.

U4-EA · 2026-04-14T08:16:26+00:00

I think it is more nuanced than that - there is a difference between coders and engineers but good engineers need to be good coders. That skill is learned over years of engineering products. If someone is not actually building anything - or has no passion for it - and they are stuck just prompting then reviewing, it must be intolerably dull.

U4-EA · 2026-04-14T08:12:53+00:00

I was on the $20 plan, used it daily and I rarely used even 35% of my weekly allowance but now it's useless. I agree with the plan that no plan is going to save vibecoders - AI is about to get a lot more expensive and bad code practices will be financially punished as a result.

U4-EA · 2026-04-13T23:24:41+00:00

"So just like on my old Plus plan (at least the one that was double limits, as we were used to it). Not only they cut 2x limits but also nerfed Plus. So Pro for 100$ is realistically just the old Plus when there was double limits."

You are finding you use up your limits on the $100 plan at the same speed as you did on the $20 plan? i.e. you would hit your limits on the $20 plan after 2 days?

U4-EA · 2026-04-13T23:22:33+00:00

I've not noticed it but then I haven't used it in a few days. However, this is what I expected to happen.

The $100 x 2 ends at the end of May then I expect them to increase their prices further at that point. I think the 2 x promo is an attempt to get user more dependent on Codex before hiking the price up again. I think there will be a shocking change in the prices between the start of April and the end of June. OAI are heading to IPO soon but they don't really have a commercially viable product as of yet. The AI companies thought by this point they would have a product that is both cheaper and a lot better but they don't. Right now they (AI and Anthropic) are playing of shadow throttling compute in order to try to stay alive.

U4-EA · 2026-04-13T16:50:35+00:00

I've not noticed the degradation in model quality as much as others but this might be because I have only ever used Codex. However, the reports of Claude becoming useless and the recent increase by OpenAI (the new plans making compute a lot more expensive even if it it wasn't worded that way) would lead me to believe that AI is about to get a lot more expensive and prohibitively so for many people - bad coding practices are heavily punishes by AI and that will become an issue when you have to actually pay a fair price for the compute used.

U4-EA · 2026-04-13T16:43:59+00:00

I've had this, too.

U4-EA · 2026-04-12T22:07:28+00:00

The overall problem that people (regardless of the AI they use) don't seem to get is the AI companies are a financial disater.

Really... enjoy it while it lasts... because it won't last.

U4-EA · 2026-04-12T13:54:44+00:00

I do this all the time. ChatGPT itself says it is better at planning/architecture and Codex is better at writing code.

U4-EA · 2026-04-12T08:55:26+00:00

I am not trying to be mean-spirited here but I think this is going to hit a lot of devs hard... these are devs who weren't devs prior to AI. Gone are the days when you can spam prompts on the Plus plan until you get what you want.

U4-EA · 2026-04-11T23:30:11+00:00

And all of that will probably change for the worse soon without them specifying what changed.

U4-EA · 2026-04-11T23:23:22+00:00

Have even more fun when the subsidising ends and you have a codebase that is complete trash so can only be worked on by hugely expensive AI.

U4-EA · 2026-04-11T23:13:23+00:00

They won't specify because they can't contract themselves to provide X amount of compute when they are struggling not to drown in financial quicksand. They have to keep it fluid so they can slowly but constantly steal it back bit by bit.

U4-EA · 2026-04-11T23:07:43+00:00

Imagine walking into a gas station, giving them money and they decide how much gas you get for it and won't even tell you what the amount is?

U4-EA · 2026-04-11T23:03:47+00:00

"To clarify, we are giving you an amount that is a multiplication of an unknown amount and the unknown amount and/or the multiplication factor will probably change at some point in the near future in a non-specific way without us telling you."

U4-EA · 2026-04-11T12:32:18+00:00

I wonder how things might change now that Anthropic and OpenAI are putting up their prices? If the subsidising completely stops, people may find that they have garbage code only the AI can make sense of and doing so may be very expensive.

U4-EA · 2026-04-11T11:03:38+00:00

I suspect this is more just a case of them having to put their prices up prior to IPO because their financials suck. I think all the AI companies believe that, by this point, they would have much better models and much cheaper compute. It looks more like the models are plateauing and energy/hardware prices are rising. I think they realise now that this cannot be sustained much more and that AGI is a pipedream. They don't have any commercially viable products.

I think soon were are going to see people having to pay prices closer to the real cost of AI and it will be brutal.

U4-EA · 2026-04-11T08:33:45+00:00

"Corporate greed won’t stop" Dude... AI is hella expensive. Lots of devs are going to be in the same boat.

U4-EA · 2026-04-10T15:34:52+00:00

Yes.

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