Go with monthly AI subscriptions friends.

I can’t remember where I read this tip, but given how fast the AI lab models move, it’s smarter to stick with a monthly plan instead of locking into an annual one, even if the annual price looks more attractive.

I hit a DI issue on Android and was too lazy to debug it myself, so I pointed two models at it. GPT Codex gave me the cleanest, correct fix. Claude Sonnet 4.5 found a fix, but it wasn’t idiomatic and was pretty aggressive with the changes.

A month ago, I wouldn’t have bothered with anything other than the Claude models for coding. Today, Codex clearly feels ahead. Google is about to ship its next Gemini model and, from what I’m hearing, it’s going to be absurdly good.

In these wonderfully unstable times, monthly subscriptions are the way to go.