antirez: Skip API tokens, subscribe to at most two AI coding accounts instead

antirez · x · 2026-09-29

Redis creator antirez argues that normal people without "fuck you money" should do all their programming work with at most two subscription accounts (e.g. OpenAI and Anthropic) and never buy tokens via API — fixed subscription costs keep spending predictable, while pay-as-you-go API billing can rack up large random expenses.

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