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Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by wilg »

Mond_ wrote: post #21
johnwheeler wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know why this comment's getting down voted. It's absolutely true. I would also add that Anthropic seems to limit, compute, the more you use it because I'm on the Max subscription, and it just stops working for me. I'll ask it to do something and it'll say, I tried, but I couldn't do it over and over again or some variation of. But it doesn't do that at the start of my subscription, so...

> I don't know why this comment's getting down voted. Because just calling something bad does not add a lot to the conversation. It's not thoughtful, interesting, or good.

Huh? Comparing model quality is something everyone is constantly doing here. If you need more specifics, it speaks in an incomprehensible way, stops working lazily, does a bad job and misses things constantly, and makes a lot more mistakes. I have both a $200/mo Codex and Claude subscription and swap between them when one runs out, and I'm always more miserable when I have to use Claude.

The Claude desktop app is also widely panned, as I mentioned, and for me this mainly is due to general UX and a poor remote control interface. Codex's connected machine support is top notch.

I also mentioned the value of the Codex resets!

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by alphabettsy »

johnwheeler wrote: post #8
wilg wrote: post #3

Claude Opus and Fable are so bad compared to GPT-5.6-Sol it's ridiculous, their desktop client is worse, and the value is worse because OpenAI has been spamming discounts. They better get their shit together at Anthropic! Edit: If you're mad I'm light on the details I have provided some in the replies.

I don't know why this comment's getting down voted. It's absolutely true. I would also add that Anthropic seems to limit, compute, the more you use it because I'm on the Max subscription, and it just stops working for me. I'll ask it to do something and it'll say, I tried, but I couldn't do it over and over again or some variation of. But it doesn't do that at the start of my subscription, so...

It might be objectively true for you.

Opus 5 is fine for me and works better and faster on low and medium than higher effort on prior versions. Same as 5.6 Sol compared to 5.5 or 5.4.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by wilg »

kelnos wrote: post #32
johnwheeler wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know why this comment's getting down voted. It's absolutely true. I would also add that Anthropic seems to limit, compute, the more you use it because I'm on the Max subscription, and it just stops working for me. I'll ask it to do something and it'll say, I tried, but I couldn't do it over and over again or some variation of. But it doesn't do that at the start of my subscription, so...

Because "$X is bad" is boring, especially when it comes to LLMs. I use Opus 5 and it's fine. It's more chatty and sometimes a little more difficult to steer than 4.x was, but I've found the code quality of 5 to be much higher. Everyone has different experiences with these things (for example, I've never experienced what you describe), and "$X is bad" is not conducive to thoughtful discussion.

The issue isn't whether it's fine, it's that both Fable 5 and Opus 5 are worse to use for the job of programming than Codex-5.6-Sol in my experience. I am directly comparing these top tier models every week in my work, and many friends have left Claude in favor of Codex recently because of Claude's poor model quality.

One thing I do like about Claude is that the normal (non-Code) chat interface supports MCP, whereas ChatGPT basically does not.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by kbrannigan »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #34
kbrannigan wrote: post #22

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Any model currently in 2026 is better than the ones of 2024. What is the quality difference really. I mean i think if a developer has a good handle of the code the difference is marginal . Unless we 100% offload the thinking to the model and act like a prompt manager. Maybe

For personal projects, I defer almost everything day-to-day to the models, so it gives me a good feel for what the models are good at. Even then, it's kind of a wash these days between the sota models, and we're talking about maybe a 10% performance difference or something. But every once in a while there's the experience of one model spinning its wheels on a bug/repro/issue while another model comes in and one-shots…

That make sense. Let me ask you this When the project reaches a level of complexity . Do you simply reach for better models or do you reengineer it or does the project scope stop at the egdge of the model's capabilities.

I am asking because in my personal projects after a while they becomes a giant messy ball of wires and i basically trust the model to untangle it for me , by the time it untangles properly, I run into my token limits.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by tinyhouse »

I actually use claude these days mostly for mission critical tasks and code reviews. Everything else I use Sol. I have $20/month plans on both. For non-coding I also use Gemini on a $20/plan. So far I haven't had any issues but we'll see how things go. I have Qwen3.8-27B installed locally but until I upgrade my mac it's not for day to day stuff.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by ifwinterco »

dexwiz wrote: post #31
sandcat_ wrote: post #13

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During this period however they’ve released models which lots of people report to be significantly more chatty. Framing it purely as a promotion ending feels like you’re giving them a bit too much credit. I doubt it’s a coincidence they started this promotion a week before the release of 4.8.

I think running a model unsupervised in anything above medium is a sucker move to burn more tokens. The high effort models can be great in limited context, but unsupervised they too often end up navel gazing. High doesn't always mean smarter, but it always burns more tokens. Medium and low seem to be decent for day to day tasks.

That’s my experience too, going off the deep end with CoT doesn’t meaningfully improve output on a lot of tasks but it does incinerate tokens and take longer

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by guywithahat »

wilg wrote: post #3

Claude Opus and Fable are so bad compared to GPT-5.6-Sol it's ridiculous, their desktop client is worse, and the value is worse because OpenAI has been spamming discounts. They better get their shit together at Anthropic! Edit: If you're mad I'm light on the details I have provided some in the replies.

Sure OpenAI has open source tools, and equivalent or better models, and lower prices, and they get along better with other agentic tools, but Anthropic has much better marketing and I guess that's what matters.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by wilg »

kbrannigan wrote: post #46
hombre_fatal wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For personal projects, I defer almost everything day-to-day to the models, so it gives me a good feel for what the models are good at. Even then, it's kind of a wash these days between the sota models, and we're talking about maybe a 10% performance difference or something. But every once in a while there's the experience of one model spinning its wheels on a bug/repro/issue while another model comes in and one-shots…

That make sense. Let me ask you this When the project reaches a level of complexity . Do you simply reach for better models or do you reengineer it or does the project scope stop at the egdge of the model's capabilities. I am asking because in my personal projects after a while they becomes a giant messy ball of wires and i basically trust the model to untangle it for me , by the time it untangles properly, I run int…

Every time I try to use a lower tier model like Terra or Sonnet I regret it, so I just use the best one the first time to keep my sanity (it sort of works). Same with effort, you gotta just max it out (though I stopped using Ultra/Ultracode) and I never use fast because I'd rather work in parallel on more than on one thing faster almost always.
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