Why I am buying 2x Codex Pro accounts?
expense, savings and risk.
Back in 2024, I used to earn around 1.8k $ per month, it was a lot of money for me. Acting wisely for the time, I saved much of the money in Mutual Funds and never really boasted about the income, I always loved saving money, maybe cause of the scarcity we had of it since childhood, maybe cause my mother trusted her money with me, since I learnt UPI and was managing the online expenses.
But it was good for the time, 6 months later, I left the job, its been around 520 days since then. I haven’t earned a dollar. I left in hopes of starting a business, my own product, I thought I would have more interest when I was doing my own thing. Turns out I am a procrastinator, I tried Claude Code back in march 2025, but I acted like 20$ was a big sum, and I was not getting any productive work out of it, so I stopped.
Why I came back to Codex
I stuck with Cursor for some time, but then the subsidization era came, so I switched back to the Claude plan and this year I have been with the 20$ Codex plan for much of the year. Claude is good, but Codex just has more efficient models so you get more usage, for the same bucks. Its also that Codex is not evil, and is very user friendly whereas Anthropic just wants to achieve AGI, and enterprise customers.
What I have been building
I crossed a billion tokens last month, probably the last guy in the tech world to do so. Much of my products have been personal, local DNS, AI screen watcher, APK debugging to connect to TV and STB, and I also tried to do some UPI for computer but that sadly did not produce anything, I also made a cat game. This does make one think what will be the future of software when people will be building their own stuff for everything. Now, recently I have come to realize maybe I should go for the 200$ plan, the subsidization is crazy and it will push me to do more.
Why I am making the bet
Think about it, the more I create, the better chance I have of earning something, its also some pressure on me since 200$ is a lot of money that I will have to make worth it. I have leverage here, you don’t see it as an employee, your output doesn’t correlate with earnings for most people. But thats not true for a business. Maybe I learnt this too late.
Anyways I am buying a 200$ Codex plan on Credit Card today, and I will be buying another on 16th, so it will be counted in the next billing cycle of the card. Credits to Medhansh https://x.com/medhansh he runs around 12x Pro Plans, and https://x.com/bil0090/status/2097033944663556573 for making me think that this bet might work.