Baker: OpenAI Cut Codex Prices to Bootstrap Recursive Self-Improvement Loops
Gavin Baker · Gavin Baker: SpaceX Might Be the Greatest Company of All Time · Jun 15, 2026 · at 9:40
Gavin Baker explains why AI labs are aggressively discounting pricing on developer coding models.
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“I think that's why OpenAI is cutting codex pricing, simply because coding, you know, coding tokens are so valuable, and if you don't have enough of them, you may not be able to get into this RSI loop that, that everyone is, you know,”
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