> If you tried to use the APIs to achieve the same thing, you would be spending thousands upon thousands of dollars a month.

Yeah, obviously, not sure why anyone would be using APIs at this point, seems bananas to spend more than 10 EUR per day when these "almost-endless" subscriptions exists.

> My completely unfounded conjecture is that OpenAI is trying to grab developers back from Claude by burning $$$$.

Unlikely, since codex TUI was launched OpenAI pretty much had every developers pocket already as the agent is miles and leagues ahead of Claude Code, pretty much from inception. No other provider comes close to ChatGPT's Pro Mode either, I don't even think it's a quota/pricing thing, have the best models and people will flock by themselves.