It is actually pretty reasonable. The heaven we were having with claude code and codex was and is an illusion. While they keep you on their ecosystem they are actually burning money so they will need to figure out a way to profitability. That is why sol focused on the pricing. I think 5.6 was decent and 6 sol is also decent with half the price. Now that the prices of the models going down, they can take down the isage proportionally and it would feel the same to the user without it costing as much to openai. This is inevitable, with Anthropic it is also inevitable. The problem is not the sol usage but the astra usage, we should have a as good model as astra with half the price so that openai would burn less money while it would be same for the user. Again, I think this is good and not bad because this is inevitable and now we can clearly see how openai is trying to play this game and I think it is a nice play. It is a play where people can still do very meaningful jobs with 100$ or 200$ subscriptions if they are burning it randomly. We also need to use the tokens correctly and efficiently. This will be the skill to sell on the coming years I believe with the ability to learn and critical thinking. Again this was inevitable and I believe openai is playing this correctly, preparing well and doing the announcement actually on the right time if they have something good tomorrow. So that people would talk about this for a day and not weeks if they can override the narrative tomorrow on devday.
