From PC World: The most powerful AI features, and particularly those involving agents, are a lot more magical when you get to use them for cheap.
That’s what’s been happening with flat-rate AI plans like ChatGPT Plus and Pro, Claude Pro and Max, and Google AI Pro and Max. For $200, $100, or even just $20 a month, AI users–myself included–have been taking a joy ride with OpenAI’s Codex, Anthropic’s Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and Claude Design, not to mention Google’s Antigravity, Nano Banana 2, and NotebookLLM.
From coding tools that build apps with a prompt to desktop AI assistants that create and edit files on their own, these tools deploy teams of agents that can work wonders in seconds, both dazzling us and scaring us (AI can do my job better than me, I’m cooked!) in equal measure.
But a big part of what made these AI-powered feats so heady was that they were so cheap. All this app building, web designing, and image creation for as little than $20? Are you kidding me?
Well, it turns out they were kidding.
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