Comment by az226
17 days ago
It is not crazy.
Each engineer is very valuable. LLM tokens are cheap. You scale up inference compute, and your engineers can focus on higher order stuff, not reviewing incorrect responses, validating bugs, and what not.
It’s shocking to me that there isn’t a $2,000 / $20,000 per month subscription tier for coding assistants. I’ve always in my mind called this ExecGPT since around 2021, but the notion was that executives have teams that support them to be high functioning and high leverage, responsible for quality of thinking and decision making, not quantity of work output.
And the value/prop existed and continues to exist even as the models get smarter, even Opus 4.6.
> It’s shocking to me that there isn’t a $2,000 / $20,000 per month subscription tier for coding assistants.
What would be the benefit for the providers in offering this over just having those people use the API? I don't think it makes any sense for them.
Most people don’t know how to build an effective harness that is well optimized and battle tested to work for a wide range of scenarios. But they can happily and easily use a finished service if they have the money for it.
My questions asks about the benefit for the providers. The harnesses (Claude Code, Codex) already work with the metered API which is what all those potential "$20k subscription" customers are already using.