We all understand that free services from a company that is spending billions on computing power won't remain free. It's inevitable. But the reality is we are all already using Codex. OpenAI recently announced that Codex was made available in ChatGPT for free, but access was limited. At the moment, developers can use code completions, refactorings, or generate entire functions without spending any money, but they have limited usage. And thousands of developers have been already incorporating it into their daily routines. That's the point. The Dealer Playbook This isn't new. It's the oldest growth hack in tech. Give it away until the switching cost is too high to leave. Slack has done it. Figma has done it. AWS has done it using free tier credits that for some reason consistently run out just when your startup is unable to migrate off them. OpenAI is simply executing the maneuver with a product that interfaces with your real codebase.…