Comment by johnnyApplePRNG
5 days ago
>their subscription now goes way further than OpenAI or Anthropic.
Until it doesn't...
Honestly, this entire OpenAI reset credit fiasco this past week has convinced me to rip off the Codex and Claude Code bandaids and start building my own proper Pi Coding Agent running models that I select and pay for on openrouter.
And I am feeling a lot better about it now that I've finally got it working.
>Until it doesn't...
I don't get the point of this. We all seem to agree that these companies have almost no moat, if one stops being a good deal, you can switch to another. That doesn't invalidate the existence of a deal that is currently good.
No, it doesn't.
My point was that chasing deals like this is just kicking the can down the road. You're going to have to reckon with harsh price increases sooner or later.
So I have resolved to avoid that future-dreading and fixed it, basically.
My entire digital existence for the last 20 years or so has been a parasitical relationship with VC funding. They keep throwing money at business models that involve building market share and I keep benefiting. It hasn't stopped working yet.
Based on your own comments, it sounds like it wasn't really that hard to address the problem though right? Let's be real, it takes like 10 minutes to download OpenCode and point it to DeepSeek V4 Flash. That's an amazing 80-20.
Seems weird to me to not take advantage of the great deal the frontier labs are currently giving for subscription pricing when there's such an easy fallback in the worst case.
switching cost is something you then have to pay everytime the deal changes.
the rest of the comment is about moving from expensive switching costs of what harness you are using to having the difference be closer to changing some config in openrouter
But still for US frontier you're paying 10-20x more per token compared to their limited subscriptions. For China frontier you'll be good though, and that might be the future anyway.
Grok is cheaper vs real Chinese frontier aka kimi. Sponsored or not.
What's the cheapest way to use grok models for coding?
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Relying on a single frontier model to just zero-shot all the work is so 2025.
Deepseek V4 Flash 0731 is surprisingly capable and cheap. [0]
Checkout pi coding agent. You can create as many different sub-agents as you wish, to specialize and understand and tackle or pass off any problem you like. It's refreshing, really. I feel like a coder in control again.
[0] https://arcprize.org/results/deepseek-v4-flash-0731
An economist walks past a hundred dollar bill on the ground because someone would've picked it up already if it were real.
> Honestly, this entire OpenAI reset credit fiasco this past week
Huh, what's happened? I'm on the 20x plan and haven't noticed any fiasco, what went down exactly?
Nothing really, when model usage goes up they do a credit. They did two last week.
Your reason for the rate limit reset is speculative. Here's a history of them and tweets that correspond to when they happen. Others can be the judge if they believe the stated reasons or not: https://codex-resets.com/
Isn't this a _good_ thing??
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