That’s been my experience, too.

I’m in the final prep for ship phase of a project that started February. It’s a bottom-to-top rewrite of a project that’s been shipping for two years, and took two years to write, initially.

I’m deliberately doing it all with the $20/month ChatGPT sub. After it ships, I’ll move to the $100/month sub; but I want to be able to say that the entire project was done on a low-tier LLM subscription.