Developer ditches Claude/Codex subscriptions for Bedrock-served coding agents
NYCounihan · x · 2026-10-19
The author describes a year of ping-ponging between Claude and Codex due to hacky pricing and usage games, arguing AI labs now practice sophisticated price discrimination — weekly usage quotas paired with almost intentionally slow models. He has moved to PI coding agents with models served through AWS Bedrock.
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