Nope, that’s not true, because they want you to pay for the higher subscription bracket.

paxys 19 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

That strategy only makes sense if there's an abundance of tokens, but that's not the case. AI companies are spending a ton of resources on improving token efficiency because they are all severely GPU constrained. Anthropic instead nudges you to move to a higher tier by setting rate limits.

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jchook 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Can confirm — they got me paying $100/mo this way.

Also I think it’s well known that OpenAI is the much less expensive option (in tokens and $$). For the same $20 you get a lot more mileage.

Curious if folks have strong opinions about the overall UX of OpenCode vs CC…

	▲	erikus 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		For me as well, at least this month to use more of Fable. We'll see if they extend Fable access because of people like me.

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tokioyoyo an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Generally, companies with >150 people can’t use subs. So yeah, it’s mostly a funnel for devs/small companies to eventually vet for the product and convince their enterprise to use it as well.

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tjoff 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Well since what you get for your subscription is unknown it would be trivial to get that result without burning tokens.

Especially since compute is such a scarce resource.

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bpodgursky 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If they wanted to play games with sub tiers they would just change the rate limits rather than wasting inference.

	▲	crewindream an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Flip side is customer psychology. Choosing a more expensive tier leaves better emotion. Also i doubt there was jira ticket with “make llm more verbose”, rather ticket with “bug makes llms too verbose” gets prioritised taking revenue impact into account.