

I agree with this.
That lines up on the technical side, too, with how LLM “intelligence” is plateauing, cost of cheaper models is decreasing, where open weights are going and such. Q3 2027 seems about when an OpenAI coding subscription makes no sense.
That being said, I’d be wary of the “Facebook effect.”
Once a service gains a huge foothold, it can deteriorate for a long time without going away. Especially with regulatory capture. And for many smartphone users, OpenAI is the only AI they know.




Well, I bought 1 year of GLM’s coding plan for basically nothing ($50?) last year.
…I now see its many hundreds of dollars, and its API is so busy it gets throttled.
Seems like devs are catching on.
FYI, for anyone interested in this stuff, I would suggest 1 year of Xiaomi’s coding subscription.
MiMo 2.5 is fantastic, beyond what benchmarks show. It’s a genuinely useful general purpose model with better prose/world knowledge than others. It’s quite uncensored. It’s not just some deep fried agent, and it’s dirt cheap right now because no one has realized it yet (kind of like GLM 6 months ago).
And before you ask, I use local models too. I sometimes run a custom IQ3_KT of MiMo 2.5, in fact, which is how I figured out it’s good. self hosting is the way. Gestures at the forum we’re on
But for stuff where privacy isn’t so critical, it’s still nice to have a year of an unquantized, fast API of a huge model for like $50.