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Re: ChatGPT Pro now starts at $100/month

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Post by sixothree » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 9:33 PM UTC

thisisit wrote: post #175

antirez wrote: post #34

Very good move. In my experience, for system programming at least, GPT 5.4 xhigh is vastly superior to Claude Opus 4.6 max effort. I ran many brutal tests, including reconstructing for QEMU the SCSI controller (not longer accessible) of a SVSY UNIX of the early 90s used in a 386. Side by side, always re-mirroring the source trees each time one did a breakthrough in the implementation. Well, GPT 5.4 single handed did…

My non scientific tests has been that GPT models follow the prompts literally. Every time I give it an example, it uses the example in literal sense instead of using it to enhance its understanding of the ask. This is a good thing if I want it to follow instructions but bad if I want it to be creative. I have to tell it that the examples I gave are just examples and not to be used in output. I feel comfortable using…

I think you might benefit from the "superpower" plugin. Add the word "brainstorm" before your prompt and it does a little bit better at figuring out how you want things.

Re: ChatGPT Pro now starts at $100/month

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Post by codybontecou » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 9:45 PM UTC

jstummbillig wrote: post #97

pseudosavant wrote: post #28

That has me quite tempted. In general, I stay under the Plus limits, but I do watch my consumption. I could use `/fast` mode all of the time, with extra high reasoning, and use gpt-5.4-pro for especially complex tasks. It wasn't worth 10x the price to me before, but 5x is approachable.

I think you currently can't use pro inside codex, or can you?

That's an odd choice. I wonder why.

Re: ChatGPT Pro now starts at $100/month

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Post by beering » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 10:01 PM UTC

Tiberium wrote: post #57

antirez wrote: post #34

Very good move. In my experience, for system programming at least, GPT 5.4 xhigh is vastly superior to Claude Opus 4.6 max effort. I ran many brutal tests, including reconstructing for QEMU the SCSI controller (not longer accessible) of a SVSY UNIX of the early 90s used in a 386. Side by side, always re-mirroring the source trees each time one did a breakthrough in the implementation. Well, GPT 5.4 single handed did…

Thanks for confirming my impressions, it's been like 4 months now that I've arrived at the same conclusions. GPT models are just better at any kind of low-level work: reverse engineering including understanding what the decompiled code/assembly does, renaming that decompiled code (functions/types), any kind of C/C++, way more reliable security research (Opus will find way more, but most will turn out to be false posi…

Codex also gives you a lot more usage for $20/mon than Claude, so there’s not also that fear that high or xhigh reasoning will eat up all your quota. It really comes down to whether you want to try to save some time or not. (I default to xhigh because it’s still fast enough for me.)

Re: ChatGPT Pro now starts at $100/month

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Post by beering » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 10:05 PM UTC

Asyne wrote: post #77

antirez wrote: post #34

Very good move. In my experience, for system programming at least, GPT 5.4 xhigh is vastly superior to Claude Opus 4.6 max effort. I ran many brutal tests, including reconstructing for QEMU the SCSI controller (not longer accessible) of a SVSY UNIX of the early 90s used in a 386. Side by side, always re-mirroring the source trees each time one did a breakthrough in the implementation. Well, GPT 5.4 single handed did…

+1 to this, I've found GPT/Codex models consistently stronger in engineering tasks (such as debugging complex, cross-systems issues, concurrency problems, etc). I use both OpenAI and Anthropic models, though for different purposes, what surprises me is how underrated GPT still feels (or, alternatively, how overhyped Anthropic models can be) given how capable it is in these scenarios. There also seems to be relatively…

Or rather, it’s hard to ask everyone to side-by-side compare both products on their use cases. So the choice really comes down to word-of-mouth even though their use cases may be better served by Codex.

Re: ChatGPT Pro now starts at $100/month

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Post by archagon » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 10:20 PM UTC

simianwords wrote: post #154

rs_rs_rs_rs_rs wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's with the holier-than-thou attitude? Why do you think you're better than someone using chatgpt?

People love to roleplay as activists because it gives their life some meaning and illusion of control

And people love to roleplay as nihilists because it means they don't have to be responsible for anything.

Re: ChatGPT Pro now starts at $100/month

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Post by user34283 » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 10:48 PM UTC

Morromist wrote: post #172

user34283 wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't see a comment in this thread concretely discussing said unethical things. Not sure why you felt the need to switch the topic to Grok. About its nudification incident, it seems a bit far stretched to say that malicious actors bypassing its safety controls was not an accident. Initially, the image features were restricted to paying subscribers to prevent abuse by anonymous actors; this obviously happened while…

I switched to grok because its a very cut and dry case of an ai company having poor ethics. To me it seems a LOT of a stretch to think that the people behind grok belived their safty controls worked, but you can belive that if you wish. Deepfakes of non-consenting adults were trending on X all the time, elon even appears to have shared them himself, which is pretty bad even if they're all just adults, and I'm sure yo…

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Re: ChatGPT Pro now starts at $100/month

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Post by tedsanders » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 10:53 PM UTC

irishcoffee wrote: post #186

tedsanders wrote: post #68

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Nope, it's just that a lot of people (especially those using Codex) asked us for a medium-sized $100 plan. $20 felt too restrictive and $200 felt like a big jump. Pricing strategy is always a bit of an art, without a perfect optimum for everyone: - pay-per-token makes every query feel stressful - a single plan overcharges light users and annoyingly blocks heavy users - a zillion plans are confusing / annoying to navi…

Thanks for the response. I tried to phrase my postulations as just that, I didn’t intend to be an accusatory. You like the job? How’s the day-to-day go? Yanking tickets or more organic?

All good, I interpreted it as postulation and not accusation. :)

I do like the job! Much more organic than yanking tickets, though I'm on the model training side of things, rather than product side. Always a balance between short-term sprints patching bad behaviors for the next model vs long-term investments in infra and science that make future work easier. Sometimes the negative press gets to me a bit (it's a very different feeling than 2022 or 2023), but my goal is just to make the most useful product I can for people. It's been wild how much Codex has already changed my day-to-day work, I'm so curious to see what it looks like in 2030 or 2040.

Re: ChatGPT Pro now starts at $100/month

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Post by recursive » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 10:55 PM UTC

NewsaHackO wrote: post #197

Throaway199999 wrote: post #162

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llm made this post?

Because of the em-dash? Unfortunately, some writing hipsters created this "uh actually we were writing emdashes first, it's dramatic increase of use since llm proliferation in the 2020s shouldn't mean we can't use it!" movement. This has lead to purposeful use of emdashes to bait people to call them lllms. You can tell because the spaces around it most likely is because they had to copy and paste it from somewhere el…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co4rRptTdQI

Re: ChatGPT Pro now starts at $100/month

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Post by recursive » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 11:02 PM UTC

coreyburnsdev wrote: post #64

sassymuffinz wrote: post #39

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I tried Claude Code for a week straight recently to see what all the hype was about and while it pumped out a bunch of reasonable looking code and features I ended up feeling completely disconnected from my codebase and uncomfortable. Cancelled the plan I had with them and happily went back to just coding like normal in VSCode with occasional dips into Copilot when a need arose or for rubber ducking and planning. Fee…

why not just use it to review your codebase/commits/prs? you don't have to let it write a bunch of code for you neccessarily.

I wouldn't trust it. When I do check its work, I often find factual or corectness errors. No way it's going to be the last step of defense against its own mistakes. I mean for me. Other people seem to have more luck. I'm probably still holding it wrong.

Re: ChatGPT Pro now starts at $100/month

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Post by jonny_eh » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 11:10 PM UTC

Morromist wrote: post #172

user34283 wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't see a comment in this thread concretely discussing said unethical things. Not sure why you felt the need to switch the topic to Grok. About its nudification incident, it seems a bit far stretched to say that malicious actors bypassing its safety controls was not an accident. Initially, the image features were restricted to paying subscribers to prevent abuse by anonymous actors; this obviously happened while…

I switched to grok because its a very cut and dry case of an ai company having poor ethics. To me it seems a LOT of a stretch to think that the people behind grok belived their safty controls worked, but you can belive that if you wish. Deepfakes of non-consenting adults were trending on X all the time, elon even appears to have shared them himself, which is pretty bad even if they're all just adults, and I'm sure yo…

to grok or from?