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Re:OpenAI's $110B funding round (investments from Amazon, Nv... by timpera on Friday February 27, 2026 @11:07AM (#47182151)
Hopefully this will allow them to continue to provide me unreasonable amounts of compute for €20/month. Enjoying it while it lasts…
Re:OpenAI's $110B funding round (investments from Amazon, Nv... by swarnie on Friday February 27, 2026 @11:09AM (#47182174)
Have you tried to cancel recently?

Might save you €20 next month.

Re:OpenAI's $110B funding round (investments from Amazon, Nv... by swarnie on Saturday February 28, 2026 @04:57AM (#47193035)
Not sure why this made people sad.

If you try to cancel they just straight up give you a month for free. Take the VC money....

Re:OpenAI's $110B funding round (investments from Amazon, Nv... by aerhardt on Friday February 27, 2026 @03:31PM (#47185192)
I feel the same. I can't believe the amount of shit I am throwing at Codex for a measly 20€.
Re:OpenAI's $110B funding round (investments from Amazon, Nv... by dfp33 on Friday February 27, 2026 @03:53PM (#47185442)
This right here is the right attitude.

Use these freebies/relatively cheap tools up 'whilst stocks last'.

I personally managed to create a very high quality marketing promo vid using grok. After spending weeks of enduring a lot of pain. But I saved myself tens of thousands.

I took advantage of 30 Grok premium subscriptions that were given to me via a free trial. There's no doubt the cost of services I took advantage of is in the tens of thousands.

But what do I care? I get what I want and then I get out before the freebies disappear.

Re:OpenAI's $110B funding round (investments from Amazon, Nv... by rvnx on Friday February 27, 2026 @05:28PM (#47186640)
Welcome to Claude Code;

200 USD at Claude, versus 3000 USD (literally) at Gemini. Well, then it will be Claude.

If tomorrow Claude is 5000 USD, well, then it will be Gemini.

Re:OpenAI's $110B funding round (investments from Amazon, Nv... by medi8r on Friday February 27, 2026 @07:09PM (#47187976)
Replace "claude code" with "fentanyl" and reread.

This is what is called the drug dealer tactic. Once you need AI they will all cartel and you will pay half your salary (or your boss does) for it.

Re:OpenAI's $110B funding round (investments from Amazon, Nv... by lelanthran on Saturday February 28, 2026 @02:45AM (#47191845)
> Hopefully this will allow them to continue to provide me unreasonable amounts of compute for €20/month. Enjoying it while it lasts…

I'm getting unreasonable amounts of compute for $0/m. I have ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok in different browser tabs. When one runs out, I switch to the next.

Any other recommendations are welcome.