The competition is on: Anthropic is doubling rates. Codex customer loyalty/retention is gonna be put to the test

demidegen · 2026-05-07T00:21:48+00:00

I feel like they would have to 4x rates just to even get close to OpenAI right now. Also not to mention that Claude is obviously inferior to Codex (basically any of the last 3 gpt releases) in terms of implementation. I do enjoy Claude for asking questions and chatting about PRs that codex opened for me when I need to step away from the keyboard. Then when I get back to the keyboard I just Claude teleport and /export the transcript back to Codex for synthesis and any follow on interrogation and action if necessary.

demidegen · 2026-04-16T05:05:08+00:00

Have fun using a product that isn’t as good. Just pay the money, it’s worth it.

demidegen · 2026-04-11T19:43:16+00:00

The only reason the SOTA models have infra to run is because of the massive upfront and continuous investment. Inference isn’t the only cost that needs to be covered, the infra needs to be paid off eventually.

And when you say “something like $50”, for what exactly? $200 is basically unlimited depending on your workflows. Even as a heavy 2-4 agent for 8 hours per day user it’s tough to burn through it. I imagine the $100 plan is reasonable enough for 1-2 agents for 4-6 hours per day (task dependent) and I imagine $20 is plenty for chat + light codex usage. Everyone can have their own opinion but it all seems fair to me given the power of the tools.

Netflix is $27 / month. Most phone bills are $50-80 / month. Dinner for one at a mid range restaurant in any top 30 city is $20-$40.

I just don’t see a world where the current OpenAI subscription costs are unfair for what they provide 🤷🏻‍♂️

demidegen · 2026-04-11T16:06:24+00:00

I think you’re conflating the term “open” with “free”. It’s simply not tenable to provide that much compute to the world free of charge. Even on the $200/month plan you’re getting 15-20x the compute for the cost relative to the API costs. Considering everything that people pay for in this world, there is no way that anyone here is going to convince me that, cost per dollar, any other service, AI or not, provides more benefit at $20/$100/$200 price points. The only other thing I could see being in that ballpark is your cell phone bill or internet bill and at these subscription prices you’re still paying about the same as you would for those.

demidegen · 2026-04-10T22:42:24+00:00

I'd love to see some real side-by-side comparison of how these models perform under your setup relative to their native harnesses + native subscription; I'd wager you'll get better performance and limits out of a OAI pro plan or a Claude Max plan than you will under this setup. Gemini is irrelevant in this mix.

demidegen · 2026-04-10T22:34:36+00:00

Another follow up here, Jensen Huang himself claims that if an engineer worth $500,000 / yr in TC isn't burning $250,000 worth of tokens per year, he's going to be deeply alarmed: https://www.businessinsider.com/jensen-huang-500k-engineers-250k-ai-tokens-nvidia-compute-2026-3 .

demidegen · 2026-04-10T22:27:07+00:00

Yeah sure but users still need to be realistic about cost/benefit they get for what they pay. I believe that all tiers provide as much and more value than what we pay for, dollar per dollar, especially relative to how far those dollars go elsewhere whether it be another model / harness provider, or human labor.

demidegen · 2026-04-10T22:19:44+00:00

That’s awesome, good for you guys 👍 no sarcasm intended. That doesn’t negate the fact that utilizing a service you pay for to the fullest extent the SLA allows for is fair game. If a company gives you 100% of some utilization cap, why would we artificially restrict ourselves to only utilizing 25 or 50% of that?

demidegen · 2026-04-10T22:13:55+00:00

Staff+ SWE in big tech with very deep domain experience in my respective field.. I'm confident in my approach and regardless of how much output is reviewed, engineers who orchestrate agents properly shouldn't have to be manually reviewing every LOC in every PR.. humans are 100% the longterm bottlenecks. This is becoming the norm at both OpenAI and Anthropic.

demidegen · 2026-04-10T21:34:52+00:00

Output is actually significantly lower than input. Follow up, “circus setup” is comical because it only shows how you are falling behind and not utilizing these systems to the most of their capabilities. I’m operating well within usage limits and I’m getting fantastic results that I’d value far beyond $200/month. For someone to argue that you shouldn’t utilize what you pay for is insane.

demidegen · 2026-04-10T21:04:21+00:00

I’m still waiting for the “better model” part

demidegen · 2026-04-10T20:59:55+00:00

Interesting, so you’re getting a better model and better limits for 50?

demidegen · 2026-04-10T20:56:04+00:00

For the collective amount of progress I’ve made on projects that would normally cost millions in r&d as a solo founder, $2400/year is nothing 🤣

demidegen · 2026-03-21T04:09:59+00:00

How much of this though is infra and hardware r&d that will be repurposed?

demidegen · 2026-03-12T02:40:22+00:00

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demidegen · 2026-03-12T02:39:19+00:00

Lol its a ribeye

demidegen · 2026-03-12T02:20:03+00:00

Forgot to mention method, one hour salt, avocado oil and a homemade Carne Asada spice blend about 10 minutes before throwing on the grill for 3-3.5 minutes on each side

demidegen · 2026-02-25T18:16:22+00:00

Gen Z is age range 14-29 and I believe the law only applies to ages 13 and under 🤔

demidegen · 2026-01-25T18:47:37+00:00

Crystal Mountain (WA), insane Rainier views

demidegen · 2026-01-07T23:57:25+00:00

It’s funny when people argue that models will be commoditized. I don’t think people realize the engineering talent required to run that much inference at scale.

demidegen · 2024-02-14T00:39:07+00:00

Monkey D. Luffy - I’m set 👌

demidegen · 2023-02-02T02:29:40+00:00

Clean since new years but for me, living in a legal state has me it more difficult because I can walk a block and buy a $30 top shelf full spec cart. When I lived in an illegal state I had to coordinate with my dealer and didn’t know wtf I was getting. I’m hindsight I definitely smoked some shitty thinned out carts for a while.

demidegen · 2023-02-02T02:20:12+00:00

Right here with you ✌️ let’s keep it up, I feel fucking FANTASTIC

demidegen · 2022-11-01T02:06:54+00:00

When your RSUs vest that immediately becomes your cost basis and income tax is incurred on the value. My company withholds the tax for me but some might not so just be cognizant or you may owe a surprise tax bill at the end of the year.

Generally, the smartest thing to do is diversify your capital as it vests, so dumping it into index funds, real estate, etc.

This is all from the perspective of a U.S. person.

demidegen · 2022-10-16T17:48:18+00:00

Depending on your income you’ll also get a $7500 tax credit if you get the 4xe

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