The $200 Codex plan now lasts two days, says calle
A heavy Codex user says his $200 OpenAI plan barely lasts two days, so he bought a $200 Claude plan out of frustration and says Opus 5.5 gives him roughly 5x the usage. levelsio says the cool kids have flipped back to Claude Code.
Real money
Heavy Codex user says $200 Claude plan gives 5x the usage
calle, who describes himself as a heavy Codex user, says his $200 OpenAI plan now barely lasts two days and that he bought a $200 Claude plan out of frustration. He says Opus 5.5 feels like 5x more usage than he gets with Astra at the same price.
then, openai got so greedy that it now barely lasts 2 days anymore.
Stolen playbooks
Steinberger: skip the Mac mini, run always-on agents on a VPS
Simon B. Støvring said he was ready to buy a Mac mini and go all-in on remote agents running on self-hosted hardware, because agents stopping when you close your laptop should not survive 2026. Peter Steinberger replied that you do not need a Mini: host it on a VPS, put it on Tailscale, and connect your machine for computer use.
We all need to leave agents stopping when you close your laptop in 2026.
What changed under us
Rauch says AI prose is making people discount reading itself
Guillermo Rauch says the risk is not just slop code and PRs but that reading gets discounted entirely, because people are exhausted by low-quality unverified AI prose. His example: a thread going around crediting a performance win to a compiler change, when the PR description itself says the gain came from changed algorithms and data structures.
I want AI in the service of understanding the universe and enhancing human cognition and creativity.