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Re: Claude Code login fails with OAuth timeout on Windows

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Post by postalcoder »

Someone1234 wrote: post #134
vitosartori wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was vacationing! What's up with OpenAI now? Asking with some morbid curiosity tbh.

Codex just changed the way they calculate usage with a massive negative impact. Before a Subscription was the cheapest way to gain Codex usage, but now they've essentially having API and Subscription pricing match (e.g. $200 sub = $200 in API Codex usage). The only value of a subscription now is that you get the web version of ChatGPT "free." In terms of raw Codex usage, you could just as easily buy API usage. edit:…

This is not true. The change applies to the credits, ie the incremental usage that exceeds your subscription limits.

Re: Claude Code login fails with OAuth timeout on Windows

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Post by andai »

binarymax wrote: post #109
vitosartori wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was vacationing! What's up with OpenAI now? Asking with some morbid curiosity tbh.

Codex switched to paid API tokens only. Not to mention their alignment with the department of war.

Can you give context for the API thing?

Edit: Looks like it still works with subs, they just measure usage per token instead of per message.

Re: Claude Code login fails with OAuth timeout on Windows

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Post by embedding-shape »

Someone1234 wrote: post #134
vitosartori wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was vacationing! What's up with OpenAI now? Asking with some morbid curiosity tbh.

Codex just changed the way they calculate usage with a massive negative impact. Before a Subscription was the cheapest way to gain Codex usage, but now they've essentially having API and Subscription pricing match (e.g. $200 sub = $200 in API Codex usage). The only value of a subscription now is that you get the web version of ChatGPT "free." In terms of raw Codex usage, you could just as easily buy API usage. edit:…

> e.g. $200 sub = $200 in API Codex usage [...] In terms of raw Codex usage, you could just as easily buy API usage.

I don't think it's made out like that, I'm on the ChatGPT Pro plan for personal usage, and for a client I'm using the OpenAI API, both almost only using GPT 5.4 xhigh, done pretty much 50/50 work on client/personal projects, and clients API usage is up to 400 USD right now after a week of work, and ChatGPT Pro limit has 61% left, resets tomorrow.

Still seems to me you'd get a heck more out of the subscription than API credits.

Re: Claude Code login fails with OAuth timeout on Windows

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Post by [deleted] »

echelon wrote: post #132
rurp wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN is a big community that has always had a mix of people who value newness as a feature vs those who prioritize simplicity and reliability. Unless you're recognizing the exact same names taking these contradictory opinions it's probably different groups of people for the most part. It seems like every LLM thread for the past couple years is full of posts saying that the latest hot AI tool/approach has made them unbe…

> I get it. LLMs are cool technology. I don't think many of you have legitimately tried Claude Code, or maybe you're holding it wrong. I'm getting 10x the work done. I'm operating at all layers of the stack with a speed and rapidity I've never had before. And before anyone accuses me of being some "vibe coder", I've built five nines active-active money rails that move billions of dollars a day at 50kqps+, amongst lot…

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Re: Claude Code login fails with OAuth timeout on Windows

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Post by ericmcer »

echelon wrote: post #132
rurp wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN is a big community that has always had a mix of people who value newness as a feature vs those who prioritize simplicity and reliability. Unless you're recognizing the exact same names taking these contradictory opinions it's probably different groups of people for the most part. It seems like every LLM thread for the past couple years is full of posts saying that the latest hot AI tool/approach has made them unbe…

> I get it. LLMs are cool technology. I don't think many of you have legitimately tried Claude Code, or maybe you're holding it wrong. I'm getting 10x the work done. I'm operating at all layers of the stack with a speed and rapidity I've never had before. And before anyone accuses me of being some "vibe coder", I've built five nines active-active money rails that move billions of dollars a day at 50kqps+, amongst lot…

I mean at this point can we just conclude that there are a group of engineers who claim to have incredible success with it and a group that claim it is unreliable and cannot be trusted to do complex tasks.

I struggle to believe that a ton of seemingly intelligent software engineers are too dumb to figure out how to use Claude code to get reliable results, it seems much more likely to me that it can do well at isolated tasks or new projects but fails when pointed at large complex code bases because it just... is a token predictor lol.

But yeah spinning up a green fields project in an extensively solved area (ledgers) is going to be something an AI shines at.

It isn't like we don't use this stuff also, I ask Cursor to do things 20x a day and it does something I don't like 50% of the time. Even things like pasting an error message it struggles with. How do I reconcile my actual daily experience with hype messages I see online?

Re: Claude Code login fails with OAuth timeout on Windows

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Post by mchusma »

Someone1234 wrote: post #144
dyauspitr wrote: post #119

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As a person that hasn’t used Claude code before, I’ve been using OpenAI’s Codex and it is pretty amazing. I wonder how much more amazing Claude is.

Both are great, where they differ is: Claude Code has a better instinct than Codex. Meaning it will naturally produce things like you, the developer, would have. Codex shines really well at what I call "hard problems." You set thinking high, and you just let it throw raw power at the problem. Whereas, Claude Code is better at your average day-to-day "write me code" tasks. So the difference is kind of nuanced. You kin…

I think the way I and others use it is code with clause, review or bug hunt with codex. Then I pass the review back to Claude for implementation. Works well. Better than codex implementation and finds gaps versus using Claude to review itself in my opinion.

Re: Claude Code login fails with OAuth timeout on Windows

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Post by [deleted] »

echelon wrote: post #132
rurp wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN is a big community that has always had a mix of people who value newness as a feature vs those who prioritize simplicity and reliability. Unless you're recognizing the exact same names taking these contradictory opinions it's probably different groups of people for the most part. It seems like every LLM thread for the past couple years is full of posts saying that the latest hot AI tool/approach has made them unbe…

> I get it. LLMs are cool technology. I don't think many of you have legitimately tried Claude Code, or maybe you're holding it wrong. I'm getting 10x the work done. I'm operating at all layers of the stack with a speed and rapidity I've never had before. And before anyone accuses me of being some "vibe coder", I've built five nines active-active money rails that move billions of dollars a day at 50kqps+, amongst lot…

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Re: Claude Code login fails with OAuth timeout on Windows

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Post by embedding-shape »

echelon wrote: post #160
embedding-shape wrote: post #146

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> and I have to consume it in the way that it's presented I'm just curious, why do you "have to"? Don't get me wrong, I'm making the same choice myself too, realizing a bunch of global drawbacks because of my local/personal preference, but I won't claim I have to, it's a choice I'm making because I'm lazy.

My job title is "provide value". I'm given a tool that lets me 10x "provide value". My personal preferences and tastes literally do not matter.

As a professional you have a choice in how you produce whatever it is you produce. Sure, you can go for the simplest, most expensive and "easiest" way of doing things, or you can do other things, depending on your perspective and requirements. None of this is set in stone, some people make choices based on personal preferences, and that matters as much to them as your choices matter to you.

Re: Claude Code login fails with OAuth timeout on Windows

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Post by SkyPuncher »

skippyboxedhero wrote: post #82
m-schuetz wrote: post #37

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Checking different models once every quarter is exactly what made me move to claude code.

Anthropic models haven't been far ahead for a while. Quite a few months at least. Chinese models are roughly equal at 1/6th the cost. Minimax is roughly equal to Opus. Chinese providers also haven't had the issues with uptime and variable model quality. The gap with OpenAI also isn't huge and GLM is a noticeably more compliant model (unsurprisingly given the hubristic internal culture at Anthropic around safety). CC…

Claude is exceptionally better at long running agentic sessions.

I keep coming back to it because I can run it as a manager for the smaller tasks.

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