I'm consistently burning over $100/day in Claude/OpenAI tokens using Codex and Claude - but I'm on the subscriptions so I'm only paying $100/month to each vendor.

If I worked for a larger company that isn't allowed to use those subscriptions and has to pay list price I'd be costing them ~$2,000/month. Now times that by a large engineering team.

These companies already have laid people off or are preparing to.