> At the same time, OpenAI had a disastrous dev day that led a lot of users to jump ship to Claude.

Can you elaborate on this?

There was some backlash around the pricing changes - the $200/month tier offers less usage now, at the same time as the launch of the $500/month tier.

Reddit thread with 247 comments here: https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/comments/1wtgv3z/dev_day_l/

Aside from that I'm not sure what was "disastrous" - maybe the lack of a new model release to compete with the just-released Claude Opus 5.5?

	▲	keyle 17 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I went from using GPT exclusively to cancelling all my subscriptions with OpenAI. 'backlash' is underwhelming. They single handedly murdered 5.3 codex which was great by making it slooow and duuumb, and pushed people over to their new ones. 5.6 was a decent candidate but it was so slooooow. And then double or triple the cost for Plus and Pro by nerfing their effective power? I never looked for an alternative faster. They really screwed the pooch. Been quite happy with deepseek v4.1 flash, muse 1.3 and haiku 5.5.
	▲	AspireOne 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		"Disastrous" is obviously a loaded term, and it can be debated, but from what I collect, the reasons are - Dots. People don't understand it. Their presentation didn't explain it properly at all. Additionally, many people thought it's stupid, and that the cutesy mascots are dystopian. - Voice mode didn't work in their presentation. The demo failed. - 200$ plan goes 20x -> 10x usage. 500$ plan introduced, 25x usage. The contrast is stark. - "Ultrafast": 8x pricing on subscription plan (6x API). That's 80$ input, 400$ output, 100$ cache write. Hello?! Additionally, since it generates 8x faster, it consumes your quota 8x faster. Per wall-clock minute, it's 64x more usage spend per minute of generating. People report that on the 500$ plan, their weekly usage is gone in 40-100 minutes. - People believe gpt-6.1-sol was planned to be released as astra-minor, but OpenAI renamed it at the last possible time, because gpt-6-sol is a disaster (this I can get behind)

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baq 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Pulled astra 6.1 at the last moment (allegedly) and only released a dirty looper sol 6.1. Also released dots which are unavailable in EU. There may have been more but no one cared.

	▲	nickthegreek 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		and dots are only on $100+ plan.