Dear Sam,
You probably have no idea who I am.
That is all right.
I am a photographer, writer, Excel nerd, website builder and professional wanderer from Friesland. My website grows a little every day. Not because I have a marketing plan, but because I am curious.
I build that website with Codex.
And that is where my problem begins.
Not because Codex is not good.
Precisely because it is too good.
The troublesome thing is that inspiration takes no notice of a credit system.
An idea does not announce itself at 12.01 a.m. on Saturday.
An idea arrives while I am walking the dogs. During work. When Cynthia says something. When someone calls out “Wendy” while they are actually talking about Sendy. Or when I suddenly realise that a mound of coins is quite different from a mound of mint.
That is when I want to write.
Not next week.
Not when the counter has returned to zero.
Then.
I fully understand that AI costs money. Servers do not run on Frisian dry sausage and solar power alone. But perhaps there are users whom you should not slow down.
Not because they write the most code.
But because they show that Codex can be more than a programming assistant.
Much of my website was built with Codex.
It gives form to my ideas.
It gives my stories a home.
And every time the credits run out, it is not Codex that has to wait.
The stories have to wait.
So here is a proposal.
No free ride.
No VIP status.
No special treatment.
Just give me a subscription that says:
Just let that Frisian keep going.
In return, you get coffee.
Not American filter coffee.
Proper coffee.
And if you are ever in Friesland, I will show you that the most beautiful applications of AI are sometimes not about artificial intelligence at all.
They are about human curiosity.
Warm regards,
Arie Bruinsma