Wow, I thought they would feel some pricing pressure from GPT5 API costs, but they are doubling down on their API being more expensive than everyone else.

I think it's the right approach, the cost of running these things as coding assistants is negligable compared to the benefit of even a slight model improvement.

GPT5 API uses more tokens for answers of the same quality as previous versions. Fell into that trap myself. I use both Claude and OpenAI right now. Will probably drop OpenAI since they are obviously not to be trusted considering the way they do changes.