I was really unimpressed by the free Codex (for nodejs/react dev). I think it must be using a less powerful model or they’re limiting it in some other way.
The free version of ChatGPT is definitely worse as well. My SO uses the free version and I can tell a significant downgrade.
I'm unimpressed by all LLMs, and especially unimpressed by the people claiming to be impressed by them.
Are you specifically pointing at a different experience between free + paid? Or just that the free version is unimpressive?
I'm using paid on TypeScript and it's genuinely terrific. Subjectively I think it has the edge over Opus.
I'd be surprised if OpenAI is hamstringing the free version. That would seem crazy from a GTM PoV. If anything the labs seem to throttle the heavy paid users.