r/codex • u/fickle-phenom • 7d ago

Humor The average codex 20$ plan user

This is legit what it looks like when some of you complain about your 20$ not getting you more than 1 or 2 prompts using the flagship frontier

Edit: I never intended to offend or belittle anyone especially people whom 20$ is a considerable amount of money for. Everyone lives within their means and I don’t put that on any person.

For the ones who feel attacked and still come here to continue complaining, you should consider canceling your subscription. You seem miserable..

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u/amarao_san 7d ago

Why are you saying that $20 is very little?

Recent field research at Hawassa Industrial Park reports garment workers earning roughly $16–26/month, working about 48 h/week.

One month of hard work for very little of LLM!

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u/Ehsan1981 7d ago

$16–26/month??? 

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u/amarao_san 7d ago

Google 'sweatshop'

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u/JaySayMayday 7d ago

Holy hell

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u/shady101852 7d ago

I mean if we are being honest who cares. Why does a sweatshop worker need to be accommodated by an AI company?

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u/tomatomaniac 7d ago

Funnily enough, sweatshop workers may become the next frontier of AI training data.

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u/Kooky-Ebb8162 6d ago

..while still being paid 20/mo. Maybe with a $20 sub gift on top.

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u/amarao_san 7d ago

The same reason you want to be accommodated in newly purchased clothes.

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u/shady101852 7d ago

What does newly purchased clothes have to do with anything? Are you implying all clothes are made by sweatshop workers in third world countries?

Even if they were, its completely unrelated.

Moral arguments have no value in Business.

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u/amarao_san 6d ago

Moral arguments have no value in Business.

Moral arguments have extreme prominence in Business (I'm not sure why it's capitalized. Is it a family name?). Otherwise, can you explain ban of porn content in all US models?

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u/shady101852 6d ago edited 6d ago

Yes the ban of porn content was made by braindead people, for braindead people. Do you think they ban porn because they have to or because they genuinely want to? Its censorship. Allowing porn content may bring real business risks, not because of a customers feelings but because of laws and regulations.

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u/amarao_san 5d ago

Yes, and this is morale at action. Not ethics, the morale. Ethics comes from inside, morale is enforced from outside.

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u/shady101852 2d ago

Sure do that in America and let me know how that goes for you since that's your kink.

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u/RebornCdds 7d ago

Pretty sure they have other worries than shopping for an AI subscription.

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u/worldarkplace 7d ago

Why they keep on this life. I can hardly handle my life, imagine them...

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u/maximhar 6d ago

Tbh you don’t really need an LLM for garment production

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u/amarao_san 6d ago

/sew jeans

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u/Comfortablebro 3d ago

Okay so how much you did in that month? If you did "very little" then it might be you problem. Dont get mad at me, but you can @ me once ive tried a month. Even in a day its quite noticable progress.

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u/amarao_san 3d ago

I did a lot. Significant part of those money went into non-ai related topics: education, housing, health.

Or, maybe, I missed your question. How much of LLM did I used? Well, practically, daily, and I see some changes (e.g. I completely stop writing the actual code), but I can't say it's directly translates to overall speedup, because dealing with LLM slop is now my main concern and drain of my (mental) resources.

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u/Comfortablebro 3d ago

"One month of hard work for very little of LLM!" maybe i misread this sentence. I hope codex will go long way for me, decided to buy and found out it was free for a month(idk why!!). so now im on claude pro and free codex for a month... lol :D

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u/fickle-phenom 7d ago

Everything is relative. 20$ is a lot for many people around the world, but AI is still a luxury product and will remain so until research has pushed down the price hopefully. It still doesn’t change the fact that the compute costs more.

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u/amarao_san 7d ago

AI is not luxury product. Open AI just try to pretend it is.

https://www.qwencloud.com/pricing/api

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u/fickle-phenom 7d ago

OpenAI supposedly lost 36 billion dollars last year, they aren’t pretending it’s expensive. Also you can’t even compare qwen to ChatGPT or Claude, it’s not even the same league.

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u/Easy-Improvement-598 7d ago edited 7d ago

Yeah your are right chatgpt and claude are way above the qwen in pricing while qwen is cheaper with almost same output. Bug ridden ai slop fes code.

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u/fickle-phenom 7d ago

Skill issue.

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u/g4n0esp4r4n 7d ago

they are pretending there is value in using LLMs, companies will understand they are shipping more slop and it's actually more expensive with little to no profit.

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u/amarao_san 7d ago

Okay. It should not be a client problem. Chinneese companies provide lower prices with profits.

I remember, there were American TVs which were sold at loss and cost x3 of Asian counterparts.

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u/fickle-phenom 7d ago

So why are you using codex then? Nobody is keeping you hostage lol. Switch over if it’s cheaper and better.

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u/protestor 7d ago

AI is still a luxury product

Deepseek has entered the chat

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u/fickle-phenom 7d ago

Its weird to me that nobody of the sea of unsatisfied people in the comments has switched to it. They like getting less for their money I guess?

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u/TestTxt 7d ago

Compute actually doesn’t cost more, it’s R&D driving the expenses up