I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support
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Re: I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support
#2Claude with Sonnet medium effort just used 100% of my session limit, some extra dollars, thought for 53 minutes, and said:
API Error: Claude's response exceeded the 32000 output token maximum. To configure this behavior, set the CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS environment variable.
Re: I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support
#3I have to say, this has been the opposite of my experience. If anything, I have moved over more work from ChatGPT to Claude.
Re: I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support
#4Same. I think one of the issues is that Claude reached a treshold where I could just rely on it being good and having to manually fix it up less and less and other models hadn't reached that point yet so I was aware of that and knew I had to fix things up or do a second pass or more. Other providers also move you to a worse model after you run out which is key in setting expectation as well. Developers knew that that was the trade-off.
I think even with the worse limits people still hated it but when you start to either on purpose or inadvertently make the model dumber that's when there's really no purpose to keep using Claude anymore.
Re: I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support
#5I would love to just say that if you are using claude code, you should no be on pro. I feel like all the people complaining are complaining that an agent cant handle the work of a developer for $20/m. Get on at least max 5, its a world of a difference.
Re: I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support
#6Cool
Re: I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support
#7Seems like some of the token issues may be corrected now
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Re: I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support
#9Seems like some of the token issues may be corrected now https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem
These changes fixed some of the token issues, but the token bloat is an intrinsic problem to the model, and Anthropic's solution of defaulting to xhigh reasoning for Opus 4.7 just means you'll go through tokens faster anyways.
Re: I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support
#10It also seems to me they route prompts to cheaper dumber models that present themselves as e.g. Opus 4.7. Perhaps that's what is "adaptive reasoning" aka we'll route your request to something like Qwen saying it's Opus. Sometimes I get a good model, so I found I'll ask a difficult question first and if answer is dumb, I terminate the session and start again and only then go with the real prompt. But there is no guarantee model will be downgraded mid session. I wish they just charged real price and stopped these shenanigans. It wastes so much time.