Dev culture gap: some burn a week of Codex quota daily, others never tried it
yihui_indie · x · 2026-09-11
A Chinese developer's post highlights the huge divide in AI coding tool adoption: some users burn an entire week's Codex quota from the $200 ChatGPT plan in a single day, some wouldn't know what to do with the account, and some have never even tried Codex.
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