As soon as tokens stop being subsidized I would not trust any harness made by a company that also charges for the compute.

Right now the interests align, but as soon as more tokens -> more profit (instead of more revenue and more losses) the perverse incentives will be too big to avoid.

It seems inevitable that open source harnesses will win. These companies would do better to just open source their harnesses.

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skybrian a day ago | parent | next [-]

An OpenAI subscription seems like a decent alternative for people using open source coding agents. It has usage limits too, but for $20/month it’s not bad.

	▲	vmg12 a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The nice thing about the chatgpt subscription is that they allow you to use it in any harness.
	▲	copperx a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The $20 OpenAI subscription is roughly equivalent to the $100 Anthropic one, if you take resets into account.

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alansaber a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not that I disagree but I can imagine it's easy enough to ship implicit token increase (ratchet up the COT settings) on then backend

	▲	DanielHB 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Good point, but it could easily happen from both sides. The harness can just be default-tuned to think longer and harder on problems, or have dark UI patterns so the user _chooses_ the more expensive option even though the less expensive is available. It just feels your own harness tuning for more token use protects these companies from audits and litigation. I mean this is exactly what is going on with this new feature.

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