Sounds like a death knell to me. If I recall correctly, Ed Zitron noted in a recent article that one of the horsemen of his AI-pocalypse would be price hikes from providers.
That guy has his own form of AI psychosis
Codex pricing to align with API token usage, instead of per-message
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Re: Codex pricing to align with API token usage, instead of per-message
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s kind of a rug pull to effectively raise the price like 10x. I can’t afford to finish some of my projects with this change
Is writing it by hand the old-fashioned way not on the table?
Not really. Many scenarios where that would mean spending 50x the time or hiring a team.
Re: Codex pricing to align with API token usage, instead of per-message
#33Sounds like a death knell to me. If I recall correctly, Ed Zitron noted in a recent article that one of the horsemen of his AI-pocalypse would be price hikes from providers.
Every time an Ed Zitron article is posted on HN, it is met with a torrent of vitriol and personal attacks. The articles are okay if not overly wordy but I don’t see how the subject matter elicits that strong of a response.
At any rate, this observation is not unique to Ed, lots of people have made the same conclusion that the math doesn’t add up from a business profitability perspective.
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#35The current pricing model (for plus) feels deliberately confusing to me, I can never really tell if I'm nearing any kind of limit with my account since nothing really seems to tell me.
Re: Codex pricing to align with API token usage, instead of per-message
#36Any takes on how Codex compares to Claude? I mostly use it to run ahead, document, investigate and prep the actual implementation for Claude.
Gemini burned me too many times but maybe the situation has improved since.
Re: Codex pricing to align with API token usage, instead of per-message
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s kind of a rug pull to effectively raise the price like 10x. I can’t afford to finish some of my projects with this change
Is writing it by hand the old-fashioned way not on the table?
Absolutely not. I took on some thins that would normally take 5-10 people and many months.
Some people are turn out slop. I was really excited to try and make some impressive shit. My whole life has been dedicated to trying to embody what Apple preached in the early days.
I knew this was coming, but I thought I had a little more time to try and get them over the finish line, ya know?
Maintenance by hand might be achievable, but it’s extremely hard when you’ve built something really big.
I’ve only got so much savings left to live on.
I’m not saying anyone owes me anything, but we all need to pivot and in a lot less sure my pivot is going to work out now
Re: Codex pricing to align with API token usage, instead of per-message
#38This pricing only really makes sense if the users can predict their usage, if not people that use this heavily are just going to be hamstrung and are going to start rationing their usage.
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#39For the past month, I've been claiming that $20/mo codex is the best deal in AI. Now I'm going to have to find the new best deal.
Already paying for Google photo storage, AI pro for an extra $7 is a steal with anti-gravity.
Re: Codex pricing to align with API token usage, instead of per-message
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s kind of a rug pull to effectively raise the price like 10x. I can’t afford to finish some of my projects with this change
Is writing it by hand the old-fashioned way not on the table?
It's really not. As a one-person IT department I'm now able to build things in hours or days that it previously would have taken my weeks or even months to build (and thus they didn't get done). Things people have wanted for years that I didn't ever have the time for, I can now say "yes" to.