“The Claude Code $200 a month plan gets you anywhere between $8,000 to $12,000 worth of API token credits. In my humble opinion, unless you're in dire financial need, it seems irresponsible to not pay for that and take advantage until the wheels fall off.”
The Startup Ideas Podcast · Startups & Venture · November 2026
Context
Ras Mic was explaining why he routes his engineering work through a flat-rate subscription instead of paying per token. Elsewhere in the episode he calls it a subsidy and tells listeners to use it before it ends.
Transcript
…how to be a Grokbot Maxi. Like, it's the only personal agent that I've used. And not only as a personal agent, but as an orchestrator to do a lot of great work. It's by far, in my humble opinion, the best one. And you're going to learn how I maximize and how you two can maximize it to the fullest.
Okay, so by the end of it, you're going to show clear examples and which categories and can you commit to basically, if people stick around to the end, that they'll be basically be able to copy what you're doing, implement it in their daily lives, and good stuff will happen.
Yeah. And if I don't, if like if I don't fulfill the promise, I will come to your house and make you hot cocoa. Let's do it. So I'm going to share my screen. There's some different ways that I use Grokbot, and I'm just going to basically share like how I use it in engineering, design, content ideation. I know this is a startup ideas podcast. We're going to talk a little bit about business and finance. And the last one is the most interesting one is shopping. So I'm going to get straight into engineering. I'm just going to show you examples. Right. So the one thing that I really like about Grokbot, and I will like maybe zoom in so you can see it. I have multiple bots for specific projects. Now, what's interesting about Grokbot, and I think they're the ones who innovated on this, instead of having multiple threads with like the same like agent, they sort of architected these like bots, which are basically contextual, have sort of their own set of skills and its own computer. And I find that like from an architectural perspective, I don't…
you could, I see, like, you're using Grockbot to orchestrate. You could theoretically use Cloud Code, Codex. Like, why, especially you, like, you're an engineer. Like, why use Grockbot?
The UX win from Grockbot is absolutely incredible. Like, for me, like, if I'm in, like, I use T3 code to use Cloud Code because I have multiple subscriptions and I use Codex as well. But the one benefit that Grockbot has is just, and I'm telling you, people, if you haven't tried it, you should try…
you're pulling that up, I think a brand new feature of Grockbot, I think it just launched, is the ability to call using Grockbot. Did you see that?
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