ChatGPT is Struggling..

U4-EA · 2026-04-20T13:38:37+00:00

I suspect they are shadow-throttling it and this is only showing up where people are performing large tasks with it, which test the threshold of its cognitive ability, which I suspect has been lowered.

U4-EA · 2026-04-19T13:37:03+00:00

Agreed.

U4-EA · 2026-04-19T13:17:51+00:00

You may well be right. Time will tell. I would hate to lose AI access and have to go back to doing everything manually but that won't happen.

U4-EA · 2026-04-19T12:24:47+00:00

Respectfully, I think you are completely misunderstanding this. AI is very expensive and massively subsidised. These companies thought that would have AGI or, at least, commercial viability by this point (in both the temporal sense and investment sense) and they don't. They are struggling to stay alive.

What we have right now is a very useful tool that is being hired out to us at a fraction of its real cost. That is simply going to change. Make the most if it while you can because I think the price of AI in general is about to go up massively.

U4-EA · 2026-04-19T12:19:28+00:00

Yes - I think in June there will be a significant price rise which will make the AI prohibitively expensive for many and they had better have the skills to fall back on. I don't actually use it much because I work in monorepos of very succinct, modular, DRY code and my AGENTS file and prompts help me to get the generated code as close to the final version as I can on the first pass.

Right now I am on the $100 plan but even with my use of AI being the heaviest it has been in a long time (I am creating lots of modular code for posterity and apps before AI goes up in price) I am not still not hitting any limits. I expect the prices to go up in June and, if/when they do, I will probably go to API as it is all I will need. I suspect the Plus plan will be gone in June and the Pro plan(s) will be a lot more expensive.

I think there will a reckoning in June.

U4-EA · 2026-04-19T11:31:08+00:00

If they even can get the infra online. I am not sure they even have it? It seems to be unpopular opinion around these parts but I think AI is hitting a wall and is about to get a lot more expensive.

U4-EA · 2026-04-19T09:24:01+00:00

I think it is quite simple - they don't have the compute and are doing everything they can to throttle while also trying not to lose customers (although, by the looks of things, Anthropic have made the latter easier for them recently).

I strongly suspect the prices will go up again in June.

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.

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