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I am not a fan of codex cloud getting pushed on all agentic tasks over the local machine use that we have been accustomed to using. I want codex to use my local machine resources and NOT use codex cloud by default.
Had to quit using Dots. Just a completely unusable agent for actually productive work. It's a time-wasting chatbot only. encyclopedic knowledge and limited intelligent 'action'.
Dots is OpenAi's attempt to create a universal harness and obfuscate the model selection.
Brings an entirely new meaning when they say, "intelligence to cheap to meter" ... just means you don't get to pick SOTA models.
David Hurley retweeted
i’m genuinely curious what the fuck happened at openai.
tibo was literally bragging that astra boosted their productivity so much they moved products forward by SIX MONTHS and were able to ship them at devday.
then the night before devday sam comes out with “we have found a new thing.”
like… how the fuck were we supposed to interpret all of that
then devday happened and i genuinely didn’t see anything that looked like a six-month leap in ai.
what exactly were they talking about?
David Hurley retweeted
just to recap OpenAI’s DevDay…
- GPT 6.1 SOL is worse than Opus 5.5
- dots is their competitive answer to Grok Bot and Muse (shall see how good, it botched its own demo)
- your $200 plan is no longer a 20x
- a $500 plan is now a 25x
now plz explain to me why Tibo was shouting DevDay for weeks straight
insane amounts of mental gymnastics and arrogance going on at OpenAI just to call today a win
David Hurley retweeted
Don't use this
Build your own software using their tokens
So when their tokens become too expensive
You can switch to your own GPUs
Your compute. That you control
So you yourself can't be controlled
You need to control your stack -- or you become enslaved
David Hurley retweeted
OPENAI OFFICIALLY RELEASED THE PRO $500/M PLAN WITH 25X USAGE OF PLUS
We are now effectively paying 2.5x more dollars to only get 1.25x more usage
$500/m is now 25x usage
$200/m is now 10x usage (was 20x)
$100/m is now 5x usage
That extra 5x usage from 20x to 25x is now effectively $300 a month
David Hurley retweeted
Same model price + half the budget → roughly half the usage, given comparable tasks and settings.
So: $200 plan is now $100 plan, $20 is now $10. What the frick.
Announcing this cut right before DevDay is the most absurd timing imaginable.
It will cast a negative shadow over DevDay and reflect poorly on the event. I understand that OpenAI is facing compute issues - to the point where they even had to pause new subscriptions - but this cut is going to backfire.
Hold on. I misread that. They halved my $200 sub plan? But framed it as more efficient in the long run? Wtf?
..."In effect, if you do the math, it will net out at half the dollar in API spend compared to the old Pro $200 plan. "
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Hi,
Tomorrow we are re-opening the Pro $200 subscriptions to new subscribers, but together with it we are also changing how we calculate the usage for it. In effect, if you do the math, it will net out at half the dollar in API spend compared to the old Pro $200 plan.
Now that it's said, let me explain why this is happening and why you will still get more work done than if you were on the Pro $200 subscription one month ago.
(a) We didn't want to compromise in other ways and are committing to not reintroducing the 5h limit, so that you can fully use the weekly usage when you want.
(b) On the subscription, we guarantee that over time you always get more work done and with an increasing level of quality. This means that you will continue to get more value per dollar spent as a result of models getting more efficient and us passing down the improvements in the form of API price reductions.
(c) We don't want to put an incentive on ourselves to artificially inflate the API list prices to make it look like you are getting a lot (and workaround it through discounts, etc). Instead we want to continue to both rapidly reduce prices and increase capabilities of models on the API. This week we introduced GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna at 50% of their previous price. Over time, we see prices go low enough that it makes sense for most to buy usage as needed without there being a significant gap between what you get in a subscription and what you get in the API for a dollar spent.
(d) Tomorrow, we are adding more things to the subscription that won't draw on the usage, I won't reveal what that is yet.
I wanted to be transparent before all the big announcements tomorrow. Lots of new exciting things are coming to the subscriptions that will make it super compelling, but I wanted to make sure to share this change ahead of time so you can all understand it before we shower you with good news.
Codexingly,
Tibo
Is it a bad sign for the product if it can't be used when it's rainy?
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