For my benchmarking suite, it turns out that it's about 1/5 the price of Claude Sonnet 4.1, with roughly comparable results.
What use case?
Readit NewsHere are my reasons why this "upgrade" is, in experience, a huge downgrade for Plus users:
* The quality of responses from GPT-5 compared to O3 is lacking. It does very few rounds of thinking and doesn't use web search as O3 used to. I've tried selecting "thinking", instructing explicitly, nothing helps. For now, I have to use Gemini to get similar quality of outputs.
* Somehow, custom GPTs [1] are now broken as well. My custom grammar-checking GPT is ignoring all instructions, regardless of the selected model.
* Deep research (I'm well within the limit still) is broken. Selecting it as an option doesn't help, the model just keeps responding as usual, even if it's explicitly instructed to use deep research.
Agreed. It seems they’re purposely pushing us either to free, which will most likely start having ads early next year, or to the 200USD a month plan.
Their model is not to have a 20USD, no ads plan in the future.
Because the goal is to extract more money from the people who have significant usage. These users are the actual targets of the product. The idea that it’s a few bad actors is misdirection of blame to distract “power users”.
They undercharged for this product to collect usage data to build better coding agents in the future. It was a ploy for data.
Anecdotally, I use Claude Code with the $20/mo subscription. I just use it for personal projects, so I figured $20 was my limit on what I’d be willing to spend to play around with it. I historically hit my limits just a few times, after ~4hrs of usage (resets every 5hrs). They recently updated the system and I hit my limits consistently within an hour or two. I’m guessing this weekly limit will affect me.
I found a CLI tool (which I found in this thread today) that estimates I’m using ~$150/mo in usage if I paid through the API. Obviously this is very different from my payments. If this was a professional tool, maybe I’d pay, but not as a hobbyist.
What was the name of that CLI tool?
IMO it's a strategic misstep to try and create their own IDE with a fork of VS Code. I'm only going to consider AI Tools that integrate with my IDEs (primarily VS Code + Rider) as such my AI weapons of choice are now: augmentcode.com (fave), GitHub Copilot, Gemini Code Assist and now Claude Code now that I can use it with my pro plan.
Which plan are you on with Augment?
These just look like small updates. Doesn’t warrant a full version upgrade.
Interesting how Sonnet has a higher SWE-bench Verified score than Opus. Maybe says something about scaling laws.
Do you have the link to that benchmark? Can’t see where Sonnet is highlighted.
> Would love a 5G MacBook with a data plan.
I thoroughly enjoyed the ATP podcast discussion on this.
Sounds like the base assumption is Apple is incapable of having decent tethering even as they control the whole ecosystem, including special protocols in-between their product they design 100% from hardware to software.
But somehow pushing the modem in the MacBook solves this...because Apple is then good at managing transient network connections in macos, hooking to complex mesh networks on protocols they don't control ?
To my eyes Apple being unable to realize these dreamlike expectations is probably the very reason MacBooks don't have modems.
Do you have a link to that podcast about 5G MacBook?
I get that companies are compelled to conduct layoffs. It’s disheartening that they can’t simply carry out the layoffs without labeling the employees who may have been affected as low performers. There will always be individuals who are undeservingly categorized. In an employer’s market, this label further complicates the process of finding a new job.
It's likely intentional to lower the hiring cost for future employees.
With something like https://www.apple.com/shop/product/HRY02LL/A/anker-maggo-pow..., you get a magsafe battery that doubles the life of an iPhone and can be independently recharged, and is so slim that I can put it in my pocket attached to my iPhone and not notice.