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Comment by deaux

19 days ago

> 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.