my experience as well - it would rather re-invent the wheel over and over

their owners charge per token so...

On the Pro tier, it’s a fixed monthly price with fixed quota per 5 hour window.

That said, every time I’ve tried it, it’s spent ages writing code that barely works, where it keeps writing over-engineered workarounds to obvious errors. Eventually, it gives up and decides broken is good enough, and returns to the prompt. So you still have a point…