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> It’s shocking to me that there isn’t a $2,000 / $20,000 per month subscription tier for coding assistants.

What would be the benefit for the providers in offering this over just having those people use the API? I don't think it makes any sense for them.

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Most people don’t know how to build an effective harness that is well optimized and battle tested to work for a wide range of scenarios. But they can happily and easily use a finished service if they have the money for it.

My questions asks about the benefit for the providers. The harnesses (Claude Code, Codex) already work with the metered API which is what all those potential "$20k subscription" customers are already using.

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