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Generating Images from the CLI Using ChatGPT's $20 Plan (Without Getting Blocked by Cloudflare)

How OpenAI's Codex CLI Quietly Unlocked Scriptable Image Generation for Paying Users

Most people using ChatGPT's $20-per-month plan think of it as a chat subscription. That's reasonable, because that's how it's marketed - but it undersells what's actually included by a significant margin. Buried inside that flat monthly fee is access to image generation compute that, priced out through any direct API or credits-based system, would cost most active users several times what they're paying. The problem is that getting that compute to do anything useful outside the browser - to slot into a script, a pipeline, a server-side workflow - has historically been an exercise in frustration, mostly because the chatgpt.com website sits behind Cloudflare's bot detection and actively resists automation. A recent, relatively quiet update to OpenAI's Codex tooling changes that picture considerably, and if you're someone who cares about programmatic access to AI capabilities without paying per-image rates, it's worth understanding what just became possible.

Self-Hosting Large LLMs Without High-End GPUs: Distributed Inference on Consumer Hardware

 

There is a quiet shift happening in the world of self-hosted AI, one that challenges the long-held assumption that running powerful language models requires either expensive GPUs or reliance on cloud providers, and instead opens up a third path that feels surprisingly accessible - pooling together the devices you already own into a distributed AI cluster that behaves like a single machine.

My experiments with Remotion + Codex to create videos

If you’ve ever wanted to create videos using AI, try Remotion. It’s a powerful tool that lets you vibe code React to design, animate, and render videos, opening up a completely different way of thinking about content creation.

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