The $20/month ChatGPT plan that comes with codex is good value. Even just have premium ChatGPT is nice. I get rate limited regularly but it still lets me do most things.
The $20/month ChatGPT plan that comes with codex is good value. Even just have premium ChatGPT is nice. I get rate limited regularly but it still lets me do most things.
The $100/month is excellent value. I don’t understand how’s that not the default option for all professional developers. Unless people don’t produce any value writing code, like playing around and experimenting with vibe coding, I understand. But if software development is your actual income, and assuming you live in a wealthy country, $100/month is nothing for a tool like Codex.
Picked up the most recent SO developer survey that features relevant info, the 2024 release: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/work#coding-outside-of-...
The supermajority of respondents did report that they do engage in some coding outside of working hours, for one reason or another. I'm impressed; I'm basically a zombie after hours, rarely in any shape to touch anything technical. Good for them.
But then only 19.3% of respondents ticked that they code for freelancing reasons, and only 15% said they're doing it in an attempt to bootstrap a business. These groups were the only types that suggested revenue generating after-hours activity, and they even overlap to a non-obvious-to-me extent. But even if we pretended they didn't, that adds up to like a third at best.
So when you say:
> I don’t understand how’s that not the default option for all professional developers.
that's in contradiction with this data (and imo common sense), which suggests that the supermajority of professional developers simply do not perform revenue generating software development activity outside of work hours, period. Therefore, for them, the ROI on any potential AI subscription is a flat and constant zero.
Unless you envision people working at "bring your own license" type shops, I don't know how this is supposed to make sense. These are work tools, corporate should be providing them already. But then I'm clearly not from a "wealthy" country either, so YMMV.
Work pays for my work stuff and I have both claude and codex there. On the personal side I sometimes go days without using it. It's more like my assistant to do annoying terminal shit on my home computer and like personal projects I guess. It's plenty for that.
It's because that price point is for individuals not for companies. So my company can't pay for the $100 plan unlike with Claude. Only pay-as-you go pricing is available for companies beyond the $29 plan which runs out for me in 2/5 hours. And pay-as-you-go is insanely expensive.
I don't use LLMs for code generation except for very simple, small things because they suck at it and I wouldn't want to ship what they write.
Since I use LLMs basically only for analysis and as a signal in bug discovery, debugging, research and general search, I don't need a very powerful model and I don't need high token counts. A $100 subscription would be entirely way too much for useful usage for me, and would border on just using tokens for the sake of using them.
Every developer who writes code for a living should get an AI subscription from work and not have to pay for it himself.
I don’t live in a wealthy country and my salary isn’t that great, but Anthropic’s 100 USD tier is still worth it for me. I’d probably go with a 50 USD tier if they had one but oh well. I’m also looking at DeepSeek since they permanently lowered their prices and feel like I could probably add the cheaper Codex tier to the list (you really feel the limits with the cheaper Anthropic one though).