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Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by swader999 »

hgoel wrote: post #217
swader999 wrote: post #9

Looking like this will be the last month with Anthropic. Between the outages and just overall crap utility of Opus/Fable lately...

My subscription expires tomorrow. Had subscribed ~March, eventually ended up paying for the $200 tier. However, there isn't enough of a moat for me to keep spending $200 if the models aren't being helpful anymore. The unnecessarily jargon filled language was already pretty bad, but the latest Opus/Fable also just didn't seem to go far enough when asked to look into something, often leading me in circles.

Yeah it feels like they tune or 'optimize' the models after release and they get less useful to me as time goes by. I'm most productive the first few days after a release. Noticed this since opus 4.6.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by danielbarla »

stanmancan wrote: post #173
WhiteDawn wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not to sound like a mark, I try to not get attached to any of these providers. I've jumped between copilot, claude, gemini and chatgpt since the start of the year. chatgpt wasn't even worth looking at early this year. Anthropic has the smarter models for sure, and seems to be default in corporate. However, the amount of budget you get with GPT as a user is much better, the harness feels more polished, and the models…

> and it's likely producing better output to keep a human in the loop rather than trying to solve the world independently and making multiple incorrect assumptions. I was just discussing this with a co-worker yesterday. I would really like a model (or harness?) that worked with me instead of for me. Walk me through its choices and decisions, let me correct it and guide it along. I would be way more confident in it's…

Aside from the skills mentioned, I recently found that asking the model to create a simple HTML presentation to walk you through it's proposed design can do wonders. Fine tune your prompt to your liking (language style, what to include, what not, etc). Then, read that thing thoroughly, and keep asking questions and iterating on the plan until you fully understand what's about to be built, and are happy with it.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by com2kid »

thimabi wrote: post #104
com2kid wrote: post #73

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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.

I've already granted it permissions to do everything outside the sandbox.

It still starts off in the sandbox anyway. :/

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by Tarean »

JamesSwift wrote: post #227
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…

They are both on borrowed time. The only thing keeping them afloat business wise is that current hardware costs are prohibitive which keeps local models artificially constrained. The next era will be open weight / local model for the masses and SOTA for the big players.

If your prognosis is true I'm not sure it's fully positive. Inference without batching is just massive less efficient, even if local hardware can be more energy efficient per operation and can skip out on cooling.

Open weights, obviously beneficial. Local compute when not necessary, seems like it'd be significantly worse for the environment?

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Post by awareBrah »

pram wrote: post #135
swader999 wrote: post #9

Looking like this will be the last month with Anthropic. Between the outages and just overall crap utility of Opus/Fable lately...

I haven’t had any issues with Fable or Opus code-wise, but the way it has started writing recently has almost become incomprehensible. At the end of a long session it will start saying stuff like “There are smoke tests on the foundation-gates that are left for the cutting seam checks on these domains, which is genuinely your decision” Never before the past couple months have I ever not been able to understand wtf it’…

Hahahaha I wasn’t sure if I was getting dumb or something. Mine finishes the tasks and then outputs paragraphs of that nonsense. But the code is great.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by ygjb »

esseph wrote: post #166
WhiteDawn wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not to sound like a mark, I try to not get attached to any of these providers. I've jumped between copilot, claude, gemini and chatgpt since the start of the year. chatgpt wasn't even worth looking at early this year. Anthropic has the smarter models for sure, and seems to be default in corporate. However, the amount of budget you get with GPT as a user is much better, the harness feels more polished, and the models…

> I think GPT sees the market changing and is correctly repositioning themselves I'm not sure how they'll survive their creditors tbh

I'm ok with that. When the.major AI players implode under debt, it will create a massive proliferation of folks who go on to start new businesses unencumbered by the debt and bad decisions by the current leaders.

The collapse of the massive overvaluation and circular investments will be the undoing of several major tech investors and companies that have a serious contribution to the things in tech we don't like. It will be bad for the economy, but it will also weaken the abhorrent control that those companies have over regulation in the United States.

It's gonna be a rough time, but it's pretty clearly necessary.

The only big problem is that if that collapse happens under the current administration in the US, they will be utterly incompetent to respond to a real domestic crisis, since they have been virtually unable to do anything without creating more problems.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by ygjb »

vorticalbox wrote: post #106
rebolek wrote: post #79

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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.

One of my challenges is that I often end up burning tokens trying to build the right solution rather than building a solution that is good enough and deferring the right choices until later. I have been actively working to change my expectations for building with AI to accept worse solutions to get things going rather than trying to solve everything at launch.

This has been a recurring problem for me - as a security engineer catasrophization is a fundamental skill to finding vulnerabilities in complex systems, but makes me to conservative when building. For some of my leaders they are much better at saying 'good enough, ship it, and fix it later'.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by vanviegen »

throwup238 wrote: post #180
vanviegen wrote: post #148

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How can you burn through your weekly budget in 20 minutes? You'd hit your 5 hour budget way before that, right?

The five hour budget is about 15% of the weekly on Max 20x. I had about 15% left.

Ah sorry, I read your earlier comment as you being at 15% of your weekly (so the prompt consuming 85%).
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