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Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by bicepjai »

rebolek wrote: post #79
lubujackson wrote: post #55

I think the difference between the Anthropic token maximization approach (vibe code all the things!) and OpenAI's focus on efficiency, terseness and token reduction are going to be the defining features of who wins the long-term race. My money is on the more efficient solution. Even if Anthropic can win some benchmarks by using 3x tokens over 3x time, it is a terrible base to build toward the future. Users are no lon…

I really would like to see OpenAI’s focus on efficiency but everytime I use Codex, it wastes tokens like there’s no tomorrow, hitting week limit in a day, where I’m able to use Claude just fine. Maybe it’s based on the codebase, I don’t know, but I have better results with Claude than Codex.

I had the opposite experience. Claude models and its harness feel like they are set to eat tokens for everything, especially if it’s ultracode effort. I have seen it spawn 6 agents and eat my 4-hour quota right in front of me. Codex is on point and follows instructions well even with max effort. I like my analogy of Claude being garrulous and Codex being laconic. If I see more limit hits in same sitting session, I have to rearrange my workflows. my experiments with qwen and deepseek have been good, cant wait to try glm and other models.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by dgabriel »

numandina wrote: post #90
throw03172019 wrote: post #82

Was anyone impressed by Fable? I was never wowed by anything it generated.

It's blowing my mind. Fable is the only AI model I use for coding, everything else is garbage for my use case.

I'm curious about your specific use case, if you're comfortable sharing it here.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by alightsoul »

lubujackson wrote: post #55

I think the difference between the Anthropic token maximization approach (vibe code all the things!) and OpenAI's focus on efficiency, terseness and token reduction are going to be the defining features of who wins the long-term race. My money is on the more efficient solution. Even if Anthropic can win some benchmarks by using 3x tokens over 3x time, it is a terrible base to build toward the future. Users are no lon…

There is no evidence regarding distillation. It is impossible to distill a model in just a month which was the gap between fable and Kimi k3. Anthropic wouldn't even keep up with the load. It is just another example of American exceptionalism.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by thimabi »

com2kid wrote: post #73
dexwiz wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

My favorite part (codex thing) is how it runs all commands twice, every time. Once on a sandbox, realizes nothing works in its sandbox, then again outside the sandbox. Fucking hell.

I add commands that constantly fall into this rabbit hole to AGENTS.md alongside an instruction for the agent to request escalation immediately instead of failing first then retrying out of the sandbox. It’s a hack, but it works.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by SomeHacker44 »

ryanSrich wrote: post #89

For anyone on the fence, I was a hardcore CC user since it was released. I made the full switch to 5.6 sol and Codex about a month ago. It's the better experience. The limits are way higher (I almost never burn through my $200/m plan), and the output is better than Opus 4.8 (Opus 5 is completely unusable for me).

I use Claude and Antigravity CLI as an (Arch) Linux desktop system administrator a lot lately. Is Codex useful for that too?

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by vorticalbox »

rebolek wrote: post #79
lubujackson wrote: post #55

I think the difference between the Anthropic token maximization approach (vibe code all the things!) and OpenAI's focus on efficiency, terseness and token reduction are going to be the defining features of who wins the long-term race. My money is on the more efficient solution. Even if Anthropic can win some benchmarks by using 3x tokens over 3x time, it is a terrible base to build toward the future. Users are no lon…

I really would like to see OpenAI’s focus on efficiency but everytime I use Codex, it wastes tokens like there’s no tomorrow, hitting week limit in a day, where I’m able to use Claude just fine. Maybe it’s based on the codebase, I don’t know, but I have better results with Claude than Codex.

It might be your prompting.

My boss uses opus and gets good results when I use it always burns tokens. The other way is also true too I get great results with sol/terra but my boss does not.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by ryanSrich »

ramoz wrote: post #99
ryanSrich wrote: post #89

For anyone on the fence, I was a hardcore CC user since it was released. I made the full switch to 5.6 sol and Codex about a month ago. It's the better experience. The limits are way higher (I almost never burn through my $200/m plan), and the output is better than Opus 4.8 (Opus 5 is completely unusable for me).

You're underselling how good/reliable 5.6 sol is. It's in the fable discussion league not Opus4.8

I haven't used fable since they brought it back. But based on my experience before they removed it, I would agree that sol is pretty close.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by alightsoul »

akulbe wrote: post #61
20k wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They'll all be getting around to this sooner or later, its just too expensive

I posted on LinkedIn that I thought the future of AI will be local . I'm surprised I didn't get tarred and feathered, but it's been crickets. I do believe it though. While the subsidies of the frontier providers are nice, they can't continue forever.

That means people don't believe it. Same thing when people used to say personal computers would replace mainframes.
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