User feeling the "AI heroin cut" plans to rotate from Codex and Claude Code to Grok then open source
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-09-22
The author pays $100 each for Codex and Claude Code and has dodged earlier rate squeezes by splitting subscriptions, but now feels usage being cut as vendors push users toward $200 tiers. Instead of upgrading, he plans a downgrade ladder: move to Grok at $100, then run opencode on NVIDIA or Chinese models, and finally local open-source models. He jokes that by then data-center overbuild should make compute cheap—unless we're already in the singularity.
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