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Comment by cglong

4 days ago

There's a lot of tools now with a similar feature set. IMO, the main value prop an official OpenAI client could provide would be to share ChatGPT's free tier vs. requiring an API key. They probably couldn't open-source it then, but it'd still be more valuable to me than the alternatives.

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cube2222  4 days ago

Coding agents use extreme numbers of tokens, you’d be getting rate limited effectively immediately.

A typical small-medium PR with Claude Code for me is ~$10-15 of API credits.

  • ai-christianson  4 days ago

    I've ended up with $5K+ in a month using sonnet 3.7, had to dial it back.

    I'm much happier with gemini 2.5 pro right now for high performance at a much more reasonable cost (primarily using with RA.Aid, but I've tried it with Windsurf, cline, and roo.)

  • ashishb  4 days ago

    Exactly. Just like Michelin the tire company created Michelin star restaurants list to make people drive and use more tires

  • cglong  4 days ago

    I didn't know this, thank you for the anecdata! Do you think it'd be more reasonable to generalize my suggestion to "This CLI should be included as part of ChatGPT's pricing"?

    • cube2222  4 days ago

      Could be reasonable for the $200/month sub maybe?

      But then again, $200 upfront is a much tougher sell than $15 dollars per PR.

  • dingnuts  4 days ago

    Too expensive for me to use for fun. Cheap enough to put me out of a job. Great. Love it. So excited. Doesn't make me want to go full Into The Wild at all.

    • cube2222  4 days ago

      I don’t think this is at the level of putting folks out of a job yet, frankly. It’s fine for straightforward changes, but more complex stuff, like concurrency, I still end up doing by hand.

      And even for the straightforward stuff, I generally have a mental model of the changes required and give it a high level list of files/code to change, which it then follows.

      Maybe the increase in productivity will reduce pressure to hire? We’ll see.

  • torginus  4 days ago

    Trust me bro, you don't need RAG, just stuff your entire codebase into the prompt (also we charge per input token teehee)

siva7  4 days ago

Why would they? They want to compete with claude code and that's not possible on a free tier.