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I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support
- bauerd 5mo agoThey can't afford to care about individual customers because enterprise demand exploded and they're short on compute
- semiinfinitely 5mo agoabsolute garbage support was the reason why I canceled. who would have thought that an AI company has only bots as support agents
- docheinestages 5mo agoMe too.
- bad_haircut72 5mo agoWaiting 60s every time I send a msg really kills the ux of claude
- wilbur_whateley 5mo agoClaude 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.
- giancarlostoro 5mo agoYou're using it within their high usage rate window. I hope you're aware of this, if you use it out of the high usage time window it's supposed to use less, but it does seem a little odd that Sonnet uses so much, even on Medium.
- drunken_thor 5mo agoAh so we are only supposed to use this work tool outside of work hours?
- ModernMech 5mo agoNo, you're supposed to make all your hours work hours. This is the way of AI.
- isjcjwjdkwjxk 5mo ago“Work tool” Please. This is a toy. A novel little tech-toy. If you depend on it now for doing your job then, frankly, you deserve to have your rug pulled now and then.
- subscribed 5mo agoIf you didn't found the way to use the tool constructively, keep trying. If you didn't try to use it to work for you, that's okay, but maybe try once more? It does work and adds value. It's a non-standard and weirdly flexible tool with limitations. ...but in retrospect, seeing how you finished your comment, maybe you really want to remain angry and misinformed.
- giancarlostoro 5mo agoIf you're on a personal tier, they prioritize those on the business tier yes.
- jasonlotito 5mo agoJust curious, what version of Max are you on: 5x or 20x?
- amarcheschi 5mo agoAnd on the seventh day, API Error: Claude's response exceeded the 32000 output token maximum
- Oras 5mo agoMore on the 7th minute if you’re using opus
- jansenmac 5mo agoJust copy and past the error back to Claude and you will be able to continue. I have seen this many times over the past few months. I thought it was related to AWS bedrock that I have been using - but probably not.
- couchdb_ouchdb 5mo agoI don't think i'd let it think more than 5 minutes without killing the process.
- deckar01 5mo agoThey changed it do all of the changes in a virtual cloud environment, then dump the final result at the end of the response. Before it would stream changes, so if it made a minimal fix, then decided to go off on a tangent you could stop it quickly. Now you have to wait 5+ minutes to get a single line of code out of it just to find out it also refactored everything and burned a stack of tokens. No amount of prompting seems to force it to make incremental changes locally.
- thepasch 5mo ago> They changed it do all of the changes in a virtual cloud environment, then dump the final result at the end of the response. That’s a hallucination. All they did was hide thinking by default. Quick Google search should easily teach you how to turn it back on (I literally have it enabled in my harness).
- VertanaNinjai 5mo agoIs anything that might be wrong or misinformation now a “hallucination”?
- reddozen 5mo agoCan you blame them for believing thinking tokens are completely hidden now? Anthropic has changed the way to see it 3 times in 3 months with no warnings or visible upgrade path. First it was shown by default, then you had to press control+o, then control+t, then it got locked behind a settings.json, then you had to manually enable with --verbose, now it's some random ENV var. Whoever is their product manager should be embarrassed at the UX they provide.
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- 2ndorderthought 5mo agoI hope this doesn't come out wrong but. When this happens do agentic/vibe coders message their boss and say "sorry can't work until tomorrow?"
- shepherdjerred 5mo agoI write down the time I run out of tokens each day and pray my employer will pay for more
- zulban 5mo agoPeople hired to do jobs they cannot do have many, many more methods than that. For thousands of years.
- easythrees 5mo agoI have to say, this has been the opposite of my experience. If anything, I have moved over more work from ChatGPT to Claude.
- kleene_op 5mo agoSame. I am getting crazy good value from Claude at work, on both scientific applications and deployment environments. There is one caveat, and that is you have to give the model well thought out constraints to guide it properly, and absolutely take the time to read all the thinking it's doing and not be afraid to stop the process whenever things go sideway. People who just let Claude roam free on their repository deserve everything they end up with.
- throwaway2027 5mo agoSame. 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.
- jwaldrip 5mo agoI 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.
- willio58 5mo agoTrue that. Max 5, sonnet for 95% of things. I never run out of tokens in a week and I use it for ~5-6 hours a day.
- Larrikin 5mo agoIt's impossible to justify the jump in the expense unless you are directly working on something that makes you money. Messing around on a hobby project, doing some quick research, and getting personalized notifications was a no brainer for 200 a year. The product keeps getting worse so I will definitely evaluate options and possibly switch if management keeps screwing up the product.
- terrut 5mo agoI found the perfect sweet spot for my hobby development. I pay 7 euros for Gemini plus and use it for creating the architecture and technical specs. Those are fed to Sonnet on Pro that just implements the instructions. This gives plenty of space to do long sessions several times a week.
- y42 5mo agoI dare to call meself a senior dev, so I don't need a replacement, I need a tool.
- kin 5mo agoFor some reason you are being downvoted but I wanted to echo your sentiment. As someone who tries to switch things up for every next task, the productivity of Claude Max is worth every penny. And I actually read the output to fix what I don't like and ever since Opus 4.5, I've had to less and less. 4.6 had issues at the beginning but that's because you have to manually make sure you change the effort level.
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- GrumpyGoblin 5mo agoCool
- zendarr 5mo agoSeems like some of the token issues may be corrected now https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem
- minimaxir 5mo agoThese 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.
- sgt 5mo agoI'm worried anything less than xhigh is insufficient though. What do you do?
- giancarlostoro 5mo agoThe problem is they changed people's default settings, and if you're like me, you keep a Claude Code session open for days, maybe weeks and even a month, and just come back to it and keep going. I wouldn't be surprised if there's hundreds if not thousands of people still on these broken configurations / models. Dear Anthropic: Please, for the love of all things holy, NEVER change someone's defaults without INFORMING the end user first, because you will wind up with people confused, upset, and leaving your service.
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- varispeed 5mo agoIt 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.
- dswalter 5mo agoYou're describing a Taravangian prompt situation (a character in a book series who wakes up with a different/random intelligence level each day and has a series of tests for himself to determine which kind of decisions he's capable of that day). https://coppermind.net/wiki/Taravangian https://coppermind.net/wiki/Taravangian
- DeathArrow 5mo agoI use Claude Code with GLM, Kimi and MiniMax models. :) I was worried about Anthropic models quality varying and about Anthropic jacking up prices. I don't think Claude Code is the best agent orchestrator and harness in existence but it's most widely supported by plugins and skills.
- droidjj 5mo agoWhere are you getting inference from? I'm overwhelmed by the options at the moment.
- alex-onecard 5mo agoI am also curious. Considering the kimi coding plan but I'm worried about data privacy and security.
- DeathArrow 5mo agoI don't send much data to cloud, mostly code. And I don't believe in security by obscurity, if I need high security I do proper implementation.
- DeathArrow 5mo agoI am using Ollama Cloud and Moonshot Ai.
- cbg0 5mo agoI've been a fan since the launch of the first Sonnet model and big props for standing up to the government, but you can sure lose that good faith fast when you piss off your paying customers with bad communication, shaky model quality and lowered usage limits.
- giancarlostoro 5mo agoI'm torn because I use it in my spare time, so I've missed some of these issues, I don't use it 9 to 5, but I've built some amazing things, when 1 Million tokens dropped, that was peak Claude Code for me, it was also when I suspect their issues started. I've built up some things I've been drafting in my head for ages but never had time for, and I can review the code and refine it until it looks good. I'm debating trying out Codex, from some people I hear its "uncapped" from others I hear they reached limits in short spans of time. There's also the really obnoxious "trust me bro" documentation update from OpenClaw where they claim Anthropic is allowing OpenClaw usage again, but no official statement? Dear Anthropic: I would love to build a custom harness that just uses my Claude Code subscription, I promise I wont leave it running 24/7, 365, can you please tell me how I can do this? I don't want to see some obscure tweet, make official blog posts or documentation pages to reflect policies. Can I get whitelisted for "sane use" of my Claude Code subscription? I would love this. I am not dropping $2400 in credits for something I do for fun in my free time.
- fluidcruft 5mo agoIt sounds like we have very similar usage/projects. codex had been essentially uncapped (via combination of different x-factors between Plus and Pro and promotions) until very recently when they copied Anthropic's notes. Plus is still very usable for me though. I have not tried Claude Pro in quite a while and if people are complaining about usage limits I know it's going to be a bad time for me. I had to move up from Claude Pro when the weekly limits were introduced because it was too annoying to schedule my life around 5hr windows. I started using codex around December when I started to worry I was becoming too dependent on Claude and need to encourage competition. codex wasn't particularly competitive with Claude until 5.4 but has grown on me. The only thing I really care about is that whatever I'm using "just works" and doesn't hurt limits and Claude code has been flaky as all hell on multiple fronts ever since everyone discovered it during the Pentagon flap. So I tend to reach for ChatGPT and codex at the moment because it will "just work" and there's a good chance Claude will not.
- dheera 5mo agoClaude Code now has an official telegram plugin and cron jobs and can do 80% of the things people used OpenClaw for if you just give it access to tools and run it with --dangerously-skip-permissions.
- janwillemb 5mo agoThis is what worries me. People become dependent on these GenAI products that are proprietary, not transparant, and need a subscription. People build on it like it is a solid foundation. But all of a sudden the owner just pulls the foundation from under your building.
- GaryBluto 5mo agoLuckily local AI is becoming more feasible every day.
- ModernMech 5mo agoI love how it's just a tacit understanding that these companies' entire MO is to carve out a territory, get everyone hooked on the good stuff and then jack up the price when they're addicted and captured -- literally the business plan of crack dealers, and it's just business as usual in the tech industry.
- Someone1234 5mo agoIt feels more and more like OpenAI/Anthoropic aren't the future but Qwen, Kimi, or Deepseek are. You can run them locally, but that isn't really the point, it is about democratization of service providers. You can run any of them on a dozen providers with different trade-offs/offerings OR locally. They won't ever be SOTA due to money, but "last year's SOTA" when it costs 1/4 or less, may be good enough. More quantity, more flexibility, at lower edge quality. It can make sense. A 7% dumber agent TEAM Vs. a single objectively superior super-agent. That's the most exciting thing going on in that space. New workflows opening up not due to intelligence improvements but cost improvements for "good enough" intelligence.
- drunken_thor 5mo agoAI services are only minorly incentivized to reduce token usage. They want high token usage, it makes you pay more. They are going to continually test where the limit is, what is the max token usage before you get angry. All AI companies will continue to trade places for token use and cost as cost increases. We are in tepid water pretending it is a bath pretending we aren’t about to be boiled frogs.
- y42 5mo agoThat's what I am thinking, too. It sound's like a conspiracy theory, but at the end Anthropic et al benefits from models that don't finish their jobs. I recently read about this "over editing phenomenon". The machine is never done. It doesn't want to. It's like dating apps. They don't want you to find a good match, because then you cancel the subscription.
- biglyburrito 5mo agoWhich works fine, right up until China releases a new DeepSeek model that's 85% as capable as an Anthropic or OpenAI premium model but costs a fraction of what either of those US companies are charging. Speaking of which: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/24/deepseek-v4-llm-preview-open-source-ai-competition-china.html https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/24/deepseek-v4-llm-preview-open...
- zzzeek 5mo agoWell that's why threads like this are important to upvote. On hacker news , they're angry !
- minimaxir 5mo agoTo an extent. That economic incentive stops making sense when a) capacity is an actual constraint and b) Anthropic is not a monopoly and is subject to pressure from competitors who are more user-friendly.
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- zkmon 5mo agoYesterday was a realization point for me. I gave a simple extraction task to Claude code with a local LLM and it "whirred" and "purred" for 10 minutes. Then I submitted the same data and prompt directly to model via llama_cpp chat UI and the model single-shotted it in under a minute. So obviously something wrong with coding agent or the way it is talking to LLM. Now I'm looking for an extremely simple open-source coding agent. Nanocoder doesn't seem install on my Mac and it brings node-modules bloat, so no. Opencode seems not quite open-source. For now, I'm doing the work of coding agent and using llama_cpp web UI. Chugging it along fine.
- jedisct1 5mo agoSwival is not bloated and was specifically made for local agents: https://swival.dev https://swival.dev
- pferdone 5mo agopi.dev as well
- syhol 5mo agohttps://pi.dev/ https://pi.dev/ seems popular, whats not open source about opencode? The repo has an MIT License.
- tfrancisl 5mo agoSome people believe only copyleft licenses are open source. They're right on principle, wrong in (legal) practice.
- steveklabnik 5mo agoThey're not even right on principle: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html Even the FSF recognizes that non-copyleft licenses still follow the Freedoms, and therefore are still Free Software.
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- hedgehog 5mo agoI used Opus via Copilot until December and then largely switched over to Claude Code. I'm not sure what the difference is but I haven't seen any of these issues in daily use.
- aleqs 5mo agoThe usage metering is just so incredibly inconsistent, sometimes 4 parallel Opus sessions for 3 hours straight on max effort only uses up 70% of a session, other times 20 mins / 3 prompts in one session completely maxes it out. (Max x20 plan) Is this just a bug on anthropic side or is the usage metering just completely opaque and arbitrary?
- unshavedyak 5mo agoIt's something strange because i never have these issues. I often run two in parallel (though not all day), and generally have something running anytime i look at my laptop to advance the steps/tasks/etc. Usually i struggle to hit 50% on my Max20. Heck two weeks ago i tried my hardest to hit my limit just to make use of my subscription (i sometimes feel like i'm wasting it), and i still only managed to get to 80% for the week. I generally prune my context frequently though, each new plan is a prune for example, because i don't trust large context windows and degradation. My CLAUDE.md's are also somewhat trim for this same fear and i don't use any plugins, and only a couple MCPs (LSP). No idea why everyone seems to be having such wildly different experiences on token usage.
- subscribed 5mo agoMaybe you should try running exactly the same prompts in exactly the same settings? Chances are one of you has been drafted into an unpleasant experiment.
- stldev 5mo agoSame, after being a long-time proponent too. First was the CC adaptive thinking change, then 4.7. Even with `/effort max` and keeping under 20% of 1M context, the quality degradation is obvious. I don't understand their strategy here.
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- siliconc0w 5mo agoShameless self plug but also worried about the silent quality regressions, I started building a tool to track coding agent performance over time.. https://github.com/s1liconcow/repogauge https://github.com/s1liconcow/repogauge Here is a sample report that tries out the cheaper models + the newest Kimi2.6 model against the 5.4 'gold' testcases from the repo: https://repogauge.org/sample_report https://repogauge.org/sample_report.
- conception 5mo agoThis is cool - just wanted to note https://marginlab.ai https://marginlab.ai is one that has been around for a while.
- aleksiy123 5mo agoare there any tools anyone knows to collect this kind of telemetry while using the tools instead of offline evals. running evals seems like it may be a bit too expensive as a solo dev.
- lanthissa 5mo agofor all the drama, its pretty clear both openai, google, and anthropic have had to degrade some of their products because of a lack of supply. There's really no immediate solution to this other than letting the price float or limiting users as capacity is built out this gets better.
- rectang 5mo agoI feel like I'm using Claude Opus pretty effectively and I'm honestly not running up against limits in my mid-tier subscriptions. My workflow is more "copilot" than "autopilot", in that I craft prompts for contained tasks and review nearly everything, so it's pretty light compared to people doing vibe coding. The market-leading technology is pretty close to "good enough" for how I'm using it. I look forward to the day when LLM-assisted coding is commoditized. I could really go for an open source model based on properly licensed code.
- cyanydeez 5mo agoHonestly, it sounds like, assuming you have no ethical qualms, you could get by with a Mac or AMD 395+ and the newest models, specifically QWEN3.5-Coder-Next. It does exactly as you describe. It maxes out around 85k context, which if you do a good job providing guard rails, etc, is the length of a small-medium project. It does seem like the sweet spot between WallE and the destroyed earth in WallE.
- hadlock 5mo agoSeems like AMD 395+ is only about 16 tokens/s which is 25-33% the speed of SOTA models. Break even on a $3000 machine is ~15 months
- cyanydeez 5mo agothats pessimistic. do the calc assuming Cloud provider X changes your nondetermistic output every Y Months by Z probability and increases prices by 10% every 6 months. slow and steady is worth exponentials. keep slopppping it my boid.
- ethicalqualms 5mo agoSorry, out of the loop. Which ethical qualms are you referring to?
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- algoth1 5mo agoDoesn't "poor support" implies that there is some sort of support? Shouldnt it be "no support"
- ipaddr 5mo agoYou get to talk to an AI agent
- isjcjwjdkwjxk 5mo agoOh no, the unreliable product people pretend is the next coming of Jesus turned out to be thoroughly unreliable. Who coulda thunk it.
- petterroea 5mo agoLooking at Anthropic's new products I think they understand they don't really have a cutting edge other than the brand. I tried Kimi 2.6 and it's almost comparable to Opus. Anthropic lost the ball. I hope this is a sign the we are moving towards a future where model usage is a commodity with heavy competition on price/performance
- alex-onecard 5mo agoHow are you using kimi 2.6? I am considering their coding plan to replace my claude max 5x but I am worried about privacy and security.
- ac29 5mo agoI'm using it via OpenCode Go, which claims to only use Zero Data Retention providers. How much you trust any particular provider's claim to not retain data is subjective though.
- petterroea 5mo agoI'm only using it for a project I'm already expecting to open source later. Don't think I'm comfortable using it for more private work
- jetbalsa 5mo agoI've been mostly using Kimi has a hacker of sorts, putting it places I want to attach AI directly as their API for their plans are not completely user hostile. Need to do OCR for scanning Magic the Gathering Cards. Sure!, have it attached to X4: Foundations as a AI manager for some stuff. sounds fun. Can't really do that with claude
- mmonaghan 5mo agoKimi nowhere close to opus on extended use but definitely highly competitive with sonnet. I will probably end up using kimi for personal stuff when I find some time to get it running or get a non-anthropic/openai harness set up on my personal machine.
- system2 5mo agoSame here. The single prompt burnt all my tokens in 3 minutes for the day. What happened to Claude in the last 2 months? I was happy with what they were providing and was happy to pay whatever for it. Why did they mess with it? Why are they destroying the tool we all loved? I hate enshittification and I hate seeing this happening to Claude Code right now.
- mwigdahl 5mo agoWhat level of subscription are you on? If you're complaining about running out of tokens but are happy to pay "whatever" for it, it should be Max 20x, yes? And one prompt drained all your tokens for the day on Max 20x?
- system2 5mo agoI am on max 10x ($100 a month). I asked it to summarize a small codebase (2000 lines). Instead, it ran 4 agents in the background, and those agents went nuts, started reading everything and related dependencies, and sucked all my daily quota, forcing me to wait till 2 AM to continue using. Up until last month, a $100 plan was more than enough, and it was difficult to run out of tokens per day for me. Something fundamentally changed, and Claude started making more mistakes and using more tokens. I know I am not tripping because I used it for over a year; this is absolutely new.
- gitaarik 5mo agoMaybe you need to clean up MCP tools? My codebase is very large (hundreds of files, hundreds of lines per file), and I am managing fine on a 5x subscription, chatting all day. Some time ago I cleaned up a bunch of MCP tools I had installed some time ago and that did make a significant impact on token usage.
- system2 5mo agoThanks, I will definitely check them out.
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- rvz 5mo agoThe great de-skilling programme continues in Anthropic's casino. They completely want you dependent on gambling tokens on their slot machines with extortionate prices, fees and limits. Anthropic can't even scale their own infrastructure operations, because it does not exist and they do not have the compute; even when they are losing tens of billions and can nerf models when they feel like it. Once again, local models are the answer and Anthropic continues to get you addicted to their casino instead of running your own cheaper slot machine, which you save your money. Every time you go to Anthropic's casino, the house always wins.
- pram 5mo agoI’ve noticed most of the complaints are about the Pro plan. Anecdotally I pay for the $200 Max plan and haven’t noticed anything radically different re: tokens or thinking time (availability is still a crapshoot) I am certainly not saying people should “spend more money,” more like the Claude Code access in the Pro plan seems kind of like false advertising. Since it’s technically usable, but not really.
- thebitguru 5mo agoMy guess is that the higher plans will be next, especially as more people upgrade to those and maximize their usage.
- swiftcoder 5mo ago> I am certainly not saying people should “spend more money,” more like the Claude Code access in the Pro plan seems kind of like false advertising Its particularly noticeable when for a long time you could work an 8 hour day in codex on ChatGPT´s $20/month plan (though they too started tightening the screws a couple of weeks back)
- vondur 5mo agoWait, weren't there posts in the not too distant past where everyone was signing the praises for Claude and wondering how OpenAI will catch up?
- cyanydeez 5mo agoWait, are SaaS's fundamentally shifting business models searching to maximize the value of a product at the expense of a customer over time? Strange how things can change!
- Capricorn2481 5mo agoWe've seen this sentiment shift on HN like 20 times in the past year, too often for it to be a real reflection of service quality. Feels more like people rooting for sports teams. The services (OpenAI, Anthropic) are not wildly changing that much. People are just using LLMs more and getting frustrated because they were told it would change the world, and then they take it out on their current patron. Give it a month and we'll be hearing how far OpenAI has fallen behind.
- swader999 5mo agoYep. I think the sentiment here isn't lagging too much in terms of the day to day experience of what is being offered. Kind of makes HN very useful in this regard.
- scuff3d 5mo agoWelcome to the future. Anthropic is currently speed running it but this is what all LLM tools are going to look like in the next few years, once they turn the enshitification corner.
- anonyfox 5mo agoMy max20 sub is sitting unused since april mostly now, codex with 5.4 (and now 5.5) even with fast mode (= double token costs) is night and day. Opus is doing convincing failures and either forgets half the important details or decides to do "pragmatic" (read: technical debt bandaids or worse) silently and claims success even with everything crashing and burning after the changes. and point out the errors it will make even more messes. Opus works really well for oneshotting greenfield scopes, but iterating on it later or doing complex integrations its just unusable and even harmfully bad. GPT 5.4+ takes its time and considers even edgecases unprovoked that in fact are correct and saves me subsequent error hunting turns and finally delivers. Plus no "this doesn't look like malware" or "actually wait" thinking loops for minutes over a oneliner script change.
- fluidcruft 5mo agoMy mental model for LLM is I don't expect them to chew gum and walk at the same time. Cleaning code up is a different task from building new functionality. GLM always feels like it's doing things smarter, until you actually review the code. So you still need the build/prune cycle. That's my experience anyway.
- jorjon 5mo agoCan I get that max20 if you are not using it?
- cmrdporcupine 5mo agoMost "productive" flow I found was when I had both memberships and let Claude do the "I go yeet your feature" side and Codex do the "WTF bro, that's full of race conditions!" review phase. But now I just use Codex. Claude is unreliable and leaves data races all over and leaves, as you say, negative conditions unhandled fairly consistently.
- drivebyhooting 5mo agoImagine vibe coding your core consumer application and associated backend… Oh wait, I don’t have to imagine. That’s what Anthropic does. A nice preview for what is in store for those who chose to turn off their brains and turn on their AI agents.
- danjl 5mo agoThis sounds just like all my neighbors complaining about their internet provider.
- nickdothutton 5mo agoSwitched to local models after quality dropped off a cliff and token consumption seemed to double. Having some success with Qwen+Crush and have been more productive.
- tfrancisl 5mo agoWould love some more info on how you got any local model working with Crush. Love charmbracelet but the docs are all over the place on linking into arbitrary APIs.
- porkloin 5mo agoassuming you have a locally running llama-server or llama-swap, just drop this into your crush.json with your setup details/local addresses etc: Edit: i forgot HN doesn't do code fences. See https://pastebin.com/2rQg0r2L https://pastebin.com/2rQg0r2L Obviously the context window settings are going to depend on what you've got set on the llama-server/llama-swap side. Multiple models on the same server like I have in the config snippet above is mostly only relevant if you're using llama-swap. TL;DR is you need to set up a provider for your local LLM server, then set at least one model on that server, then set the large and small models that crush actually uses to respond to prompts to use that provider/model combo. Pretty straightforward but agree that their docs could be better for local LLM setups in particular. For me, I've got llama-swap running and set up on my tailnet as a [tailscale service](https://tailscale.com/docs/features/tailscale-services https://tailscale.com/docs/features/tailscale-services) so I'm able to use my local LLMs anywhere I would use a cloud-hosted one, and I just set the provider baseurl in crush.json to my tailscale service URL and it works great.
- binaryturtle 5mo agoI have a simple rule: I won't pay for that stuff. First they steal all my work to feed into those models, afterwards I shall pay for it? No way! I use AI, but only what is free-of-charge, and if that doesn't cut it, I just do it like in the good old times, by using my own brain.
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- mrinterweb 5mo agoMy recent frustration with Claude has been it feels like I'm waiting on responses more. I don't have historical latency to compare this with, but I feel like it has been getting slower. I may be wrong, and maybe its just spending more time thinking than it used to. My guess is Anthropic is having capacity issues. I hope I'm wrong because I don't want to switch.
- janalsncm 5mo agoThere was a really good point in this podcast episode about the speed of LLMs. They are so slow that all of the progress messages and token streaming are necessary. But the core problem is that the technology is so darn slow. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-episode-is-a-cognitohazard-with-efron-licht/id1737204926?i=1000762187227 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-episode-is-a-cogn... As someone who both uses and builds this technology I think this is a core UX issue we’re going to be improving for a while. At times it really feels like a choose 2+ of: slow, bad, and expensive.
- hu3 5mo agoAbout slowdowns... I have this theory that if they sneak some sleep(1) calls while processing medium to complex prompts they can serve more clients. But I think "context switching" between 2 different prompts might be too expensive for GPUs to be worth it for LLM providers. Who knows.
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- vintagedave 5mo agoThey won't even reset usage for me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47892445 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47892445 And by crikey do I empathise with the poor support in this article. Nothing has soured me on Anthropic more than their attitude. Great AI engineers. Questionable command line engineers (but highly successful.) Downright awful to their customers.
- caycep 5mo agoIf all Claude does is automate mundane code, why not just make a "meta library" of said common mundane code snippets?
- queuebert 5mo agoLike Stack Overflow?
- caycep 5mo agoyou still have to search stack overflow and sift, but I'm surprised someone doesn't just make a TLDR style or shortcuts-expanding product out of it that you can just pop in code for this use case or that. vs. the current product spending a few datacenter's worth of energy to give you the answer that's only correct x% of the time
- twobitshifter 5mo agomaybe make it so that when you start typing it completes the snippet?
- zh_code 5mo agoI just cancelled my Max20 plan yesterday.
- sfmike 5mo agoi ran prompts used up a ton of usage, and got no return just showed error. Asked support hey i got nothing back i tried prompting several times used a ton of usage and it gave no response. I'd just like usage back. What I payed for I never got. Just bot response we don't do refunds no exceptions. Even in the case they don't serve you what your plan should give you.
- queuebert 5mo agoMaybe this is an unpopular opinion, but I think choosing which companies to support during this period of pre-alignment is one way to vote which direction this all goes. I'm happy to accept a slightly worse coding agent if it means I don't get exterminated someday.
- nikolay 5mo agoI can agree. ChatGPT 5.5 made this a no-brainer choice. Anthropic are idiots removing Claude Code from the Pro plan. They need to ask Claude if what they did was a natural intelligence bug! Greed kills companies, too!
- Capricorn2481 5mo ago> I can agree. ChatGPT 5.5 made this a no-brainer choice The new model that came out less than 24 hours ago made this obvious? This feels like when a new video game comes out and there's 1,000 steam reviews glazing it in the first hours of release. Don't you think you should use it for longer than a day before declaring it a game changer?
- nikolay 5mo agoYes, even 5.4 was better.
- nikolay 5mo agoPlus, I don't like Anthropic allowing "chosen people" to access models - OpenAI would offer anything to anybody who's willing to pay for it, and that's a real business. Anthropic claims some moral superiority, but their model is used to kill civilians in Iran and to spy on all of us, so I don't buy their BS!
- robotnikman 5mo ago>removing Claude Code from the Pro plan Wait really? I wanted to give it a try, but for $200 a month no way am I paying that for something I just want to experiment around with
- nikolay 5mo agoIt was all over the Hacker News, but they do have a $100/mo Max plan. But so does OpenAI now, too. I guess companies assume people are willing to cough up hundreds of dollars per month, and we are. I need to review all my AI subscriptions, as it's over $1,000 per month now - $250 for Gemini Ultra (although it comes with tons and tons of other benefits), plus, it could be shared with my family - other companies live in a world where families don't exist, and people don't share a work laptop for both personal and corporate stuff. Add $200 for Claude Max and $100 for ChatGPT Pro. Add Cursor, add Zed, add Lovable, add a bunch of other things I'm experimenting with... It's getting expensive!
- yalogin 5mo agoIf someone wants to move off Claude what are the alternatives? More importantly can another system pick up from where Claude left off or is there some internal knowledge Claude keeps in their configuration that I need to extract before canceling?
- janalsncm 5mo agoOpencode is a great cli for driving a coding agents. Like 3 weeks ago Qwen3-coder was the best coding LLM to run locally. I haven’t spent time since to figure out if anything is better. You can also power Opencode with OpenRouter which lets you pay for any LLM à la carte.
- y42 5mo agoI am trying Qwen3.5-9B-Claude-4.6 since a couple of days now locally coming from OMLX. Either via Hermes or Continue in VS Code. It's oka'ish, even performance-wise. [1] https://huggingface.co/Jackrong/Qwen3.5-9B-Claude-4.6-Opus-Reasoning-Distilled-GGUF https://huggingface.co/Jackrong/Qwen3.5-9B-Claude-4.6-Opus-R...
- areoform 5mo agoI've noticed that sometimes the same Claude model will make logical errors sometimes but not other times. Claude's performance is highly temporal. There's even a graph! https://marginlab.ai/trackers/claude-code/ https://marginlab.ai/trackers/claude-code/ I haven't seen anyone mention this publicly, but I've noticed that the same model will give wildly different results depending on the quantization. 4-bit is not the same as 8-bit and so on in compute requirements and output quality. https://newsletter.maartengrootendorst.com/p/a-visual-guide-to-quantization https://newsletter.maartengrootendorst.com/p/a-visual-guide-... I'm aware that frontier models don't work in the same way, but I've often wondered if there's a fidelity dial somewhere that's being used to change the amount of memory / resources each model takes during peak hours v. off hours. Does anyone know if that's the case?
- 8organicbits 5mo agoI'm not sure that graph shows a time-based correlation. The 60% line stays inside the 95% confidence interval. Is that not just a measurement of noise?
- whalesalad 5mo agoI've spent thousands of dollars on API tokens in the last few months. Out of my own pocket, as an indie contractor. I used the API specifically instead of Pro/Max/Plus/Silver/Gold/Platinum/Diamond to avoid all of the mess there regarding usage resets and potential hidden routing to worse models. It worked great for months, I got a ton of shit done, shipped a bunch of features. I really began to rely on the tech. I was not happy about the cost, but the value proposition was there. Then within the last few months everything changed and went to shit. My trust was lost. Behavior became completely inconsistent. During the height of Claude's mental retardation (now finally acknowledged by the creators) I had an incident where CC ran a query against an unpartitioned/massive BQ table that resulted in $5,000 in extra spend because it scanned a table which should have been daily partitioned 30 times. 27 TB per scan. I recall going over and over the setup and exhaustively refining confidence. After I realized this blunder, I referred to it in the same CC session, "jesus fucking christ, I flagged this issue earlier" -- it responded, "you did. you called out the string types and full table scans and I said "let's do it later." That was wrong. I should have prioritized it when you raised it". Now obviously this is MY fault. I fucked up here, because I am the operator, and the buck stops with me. But this incident really galvinized that the Claude I had come to vibe with so well over the last N months was entirely gone. We all knew it was making making mistakes, becoming fully retarded. We all felt and flagged this. When Anthropic came out and said, "yeah ... you guys are using it wrong, its a skill issue" I knew this honeymoon was over. Then recently when they finally came out and ack'd more of the issues (while somehow still glossing over how bad they fucked up?) it was the final nail. I'm done spending $ on Anthropic ecosystem. I signed up for OpenAI pro $200/mo and will continue working on my own local inference in the meantime.
- whalesalad 5mo agoThe thing that irks me the most is that I was paying full price. Literally spreading my cheeks wide open and saying, "here ya go Anthropic, all yours." and for actually close to a year it was great. Looking back I see I began using it in March of 2025. Thats roughly a year of integrating it into my day to day, pairing with it constantly, and as I said shipping really well engineered meaningful work. They could have just kept doing this - literally printing money. Literally: do absolutely nothing, go on vacation, profit $$$. So why did so much change? I think that the issue is they were trying to optimize CC for the monthly plan folks, the ones who are likely losing the company money, but API users became collateral damage.
- gizmodo59 5mo agoCodex is becoming such a good product. I have the 100$ pro lite. I have Claude still but 20$. I rarely use it. Let’s see if they give generous limits and more importantly a model that’s better than 5.5. The mythos fear mongering did not give me a good impression that they care about the average developer.
- SwellJoe 5mo agoI don't get it. I use Claude Code every day, what I would consider pretty heavy usage...at least as heavy as I can use it while actually paying attention to what it's producing and guiding it effectively into producing good software. I literally never run into usage limits on the $100 plan, even when the bugs related to caching, etc. were happening that led to inflated token usage. WTF are y'all doing that chews tokens so fast? I mean, sure, I could spin up Gas Town and Beads and produce infinite busy work for the agents, but that won't make useful software, because the models don't want anything. They don't know what to build without pretty constant guidance. Left to their own devices, they do busy work. The folks who "set and forget" on AI development are producing a whole lot of code to do nothing that needed doing. And, a lot of those folks are proud of their useless million lines of code. I'm not trying to burn as many tokens as a possible, I'm trying to build good software. If you're paying attention to what you're building, there's so many points where a human is in the loop that it's unusual to run up against token limits. Anyway, I assume that at some point they have to make enough money to pay the bills. Everything has been subsidized by investors for quite some time, and while the cost per token is going down with efficiency gains in the models/harnesses and with newer compute hardware tuned for these workloads, I think we're all still enjoying subsidized compute at the moment. I don't think Anthropic is making much profit on their plans, especially with folks who somehow run right at the edge of their token limit 24/7. And, I would guess OpenAI is running an even lossier balance sheet (they've raised more money and their prices are lower). I dunno. I hear a lot of complaining about Claude, but it's been pretty much fine for me throughout 4.5, 4.6 and 4.7. It got Good Enough at 4.5, and it's never been less than Good Enough since. And, when I've tried alternatives, they usually proved to be not quite Good Enough for some reason, sometimes non-technical reasons (I won't use OpenAI, anymore, because I don't trust OpenAI, and Gemini is just not as good at coding as Claude).
- wood_spirit 5mo agoMe and so many coworkers have been struggling with a big cognitive decline in Claude over the last two months. 4.5 was useful and 4.6 was great. I had my own little benchmark and 4.5 could just about keep track of a two way pointer merge loop whereas 4.6 managed a 3 way and the 1M context managed k-way. And this ability to track braids directly helped it understand real production code and make changes and be useful etc. but then two months ago 4.6 started getting forgetful and making very dumb decisions and so on. Everyone started comparing notes and realising it wasn’t “just them”. And 4.7 isn’t much better and the last few weeks we keep having to battle the auto level of effort downgrade and so on. So much friction as you think “that was dumb” and have to go check the settings again and see there has been some silent downgrade. We all miss the early days of 4.6, which just show you can have a good useful model. LLMs can be really powerful but in delivering it to the mass market Anthropic throttle and downgrade it to not useful. My thinking is that soon deepseek reaches the more-than-good-enough 4.6+ level and everyone can get off the Claude pay-more-for-less trajectory. We don’t need much more than we’ve already had a glimpse of and now know is possible. We just need it in our control and provisioned not metered so we can depend upon it.
- isoprophlex 5mo agodid you set your 4.7 to xhigh or max effort? anything else is basically not worth your time...
- Flavius 5mo agoWhy would I set 4.7 to xhigh or max when the original 4.6 was doing just fine with medium and high?
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- stan_kirdey 5mo agoI also cancelled my subscription.The $20 Pro plan has become completely unusable for any real work. What is especially frustrating is that Claude Chat and Claude Code now share the exact same usage limits — it makes zero sense from a product standpoint when the workflows are so different. Even the $200 Max plan got heavily nerfed. What used to easily last me a full week (or more) of solid daily use now burns out in just a few days. Combined with the quality drop and unpredictable token consumption, it simply stopped being worth it.
- hybrid_study 5mo agoSometimes it feels like Anthropic uses token processing as a throttling tool, to their advantage.
- binyu 5mo agoI feel like Anthropic is forcing their new model (Opus 4.7) to do much less guess work when making architectural choices, instead it prefers to defer back decisions to the user. This is likely done to mine sessions for Reinforcement-Learning signals which is then used to make their future models even smarter.
- hungryhobbit 5mo agohttps://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem On March 4, we changed Claude Code's default reasoning effort from high to medium to reduce the very long latency—enough to make the UI appear frozen—some users were seeing in high mode. This was the wrong tradeoff. We reverted this change on April 7 after users told us they'd prefer to default to higher intelligence and opt into lower effort for simple tasks. This impacted Sonnet 4.6 and Opus 4.6. On March 26, we shipped a change to clear Claude's older thinking from sessions that had been idle for over an hour, to reduce latency when users resumed those sessions. A bug caused this to keep happening every turn for the rest of the session instead of just once, which made Claude seem forgetful and repetitive. We fixed it on April 10. This affected Sonnet 4.6 and Opus 4.6. On April 16, we added a system prompt instruction to reduce verbosity. In combination with other prompt changes, it hurt coding quality and was reverted on April 20. This impacted Sonnet 4.6, Opus 4.6, and Opus 4.7.
- binyu 5mo agoHow does this address the point I moved specifically?
- postepowanieadm 5mo agoYeah, session limits are kinda show stoppers.
- torstenvl 5mo agoI feel like almost everyone using AI for support systems is utterly failing at the same incredibly obvious place. The first job of any support system—both in terms of importance and chronologically—is triage. This is not a research issue and it's not an interaction issue. It's at root a classification problem and should be trained and implemented as such. There are three broad categories of interaction: cranks, grandmas, and wtfs. Cranks are the people opening a support chat to tell you they have vital missing information about the Kennedy Assassintion or they want your help suing the government for their exposure to Agent Orange when they were stationed at Minot. "Unfortunately I can't help with that. We are a website that sells wholesale frozen lemonade. Good luck!" Grandma questions are the people who can't navigate your website. (This isn't meant to be derogatory, just vivid; I have grandma questions often enough myself.) They need to be pointed toward some resource: a help page, a kb article, a settings page, whatever. These are good tasks for a human or LLM agent with a script or guideline and excellent knowledge/training on the support knowledge base. WTFs are everything else. Every weird undocumented behavior, every emergent circumstance, every invalid state, etc. These are your best customers and they should be escalated to a real human, preferably a smart one, as soon as realistically possible. They're your best customers because (a) they are investing time into fixing something that actually went wrong; (b) they will walk you through it in greater detail than a bug report, live, and help you figure it out; and (c) they are invested, which means you have an opportunity for real loyalty and word-of-mouth gains. What most AI systems (whether LLMs or scripts) do wrong is that they treat WTFs like they're grandmas. They're spending significant money on building these systems just to destroy the value they get from the most intelligent and passionate people in their customer base doing in-depth production QC/QA.
- dboreham 5mo agoThis rings true. However I have used one AI automated support chat that didn't behave that way. I wish I could remember the vendor but I do remember being blown away when it said something like "that sounds like a real problem would you like me to open a support ticket for this?". Which it then did and subsequently a human addressed my issue.
- r00t- 5mo agoSame, it's a mess.
- estimator7292 5mo agoI just noticed today that it doesn't warn about approaching limits and just blows straight into billing extra tokens. I'm pretty sure it used to warn when you got close to your 5hr limit, but no, it happily billed extra usage. Granted only about $10 today, but over the span of like 45 minutes. Not super pleased.
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- elevaet 5mo agoI've been very happy using Codex in the VScode extension. Very high quality coding and generous token limits. I've been running Claude in the CLI over the last couple of months to compare and overall I prefer Codex, but would be happy with either.
- wg0 5mo agoI write detailed specs. Multifile with example code. In markdown. Then hand over to Claude Sonnet. With hard requirements listed, I found out that the generated code missed requirements, had duplicate code or even unnecessary code wrangling data (mapping objects into new objects of narrower types when won't be needed) along with tests that fake and work around to pass. So turns out that I'm not writing code but I'm reading lots of code. The fact that I know first hand prior to Gen AI is that writing code is way easier. It is reading the code, understanding it and making a mental model that's way more labour intensive. Therefore I need more time and effort with Gen AI than I needed before because I need to read a lot of code, understand it and ensure it adheres to what mental model I have. Hence Gen AI at this price point which Anthropic offers is a net negative for me because I am not vibe coding, I'm building real software that real humans depend upon and my users deserve better attention and focus from me hence I'll be cancelling my subscription shortly.
- gwerbin 5mo agoOr just don't use AI to write code. Use it as a code reviewer assistant along with your usual test-lint development cycle. Use it to help evaluate 3rd party libraries faster. Use it to research new topics. Use it to help draft RFCs and design documents. Use it as a chat buddy when working on hard problems. I think the AI companies all stink to high heaven and the whole thing being built on copyright infringement still makes me squirm. But the latest models are stupidly smart in some cases. It's starting to feel like I really do have a sci-fi AI assistant that I can just reach for whenever I need it, either to support hard thinking or to speed up or entirely avoid drudgery and toil. You don't have to buy into the stupid vibecoding hype to get productivity value out of the technology. You of course don't have to use it at all. And you don't owe your money to any particular company. Heck for non-code tasks the local-capable models are great. But you can't just look at vibecoding and dismiss the entire category of technology.
- onlyrealcuzzo 5mo ago> Or just don't use AI to write code. Anecdata, but I'm still finding CC to be absolutely outstanding at writing code. It's regularly writing systems-level code that would take me months to write by hand in hours, with minimal babysitting, basically no "specs" - just giving it coherent sane direction: like to make sure it tests things in several different ways, for several different cases, including performance, comparing directly to similar implementations (and constantly triple-checking that it actually did what you asked after it said "done"). For $200/mo, I can still run 2-3 clients almost 24/7 pumping out features. I rarely clear my session. I haven't noticed quality declines. Though, I will say, one random day - I'm not sure if it was dumb luck - or if I was in a test group, CC was literally doing 10x the amount of work / speed that it typically does. I guess strange things are bound to happen if you use it enough? Related anecdata: IME, there has been a MASSIVE decline in the quality of claude.ai (the chatbot interface). It is so different recently. It feels like a wanna-be crapier version of ChatGPT, instead of what it used to be, which was something that tried to be factual and useful rather than conversational and addictive and sycophantic.
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- lawrence1 5mo agoThe timeline of the first few sentences doesn't add up. how can you subscribe 2 weeks ago when the problem started 3 weeks ago.
- y42 5mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894155 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894155 (I am just learning that "a couple of weeks" apparently means "2 weeks"...)
- lawrence1 5mo agoThe timeline doesn't make any sense. How can you subscribe a couple weeks ago and the problem start 3 weeks ago and yet things also went well for the first few weeks. was this written by GPT 5.5?
- wg0 5mo agoThe author is not a native English speaker it seems. They might mean "few weeks ago" and the phrase "couple of weeks ago" might not be exactly as "Vor ein paar Wochen" in their mind rather could be as "few weeks ago." Rest of the prose in the article seems to support the assumption. The post is handwritten with no LLMs involved.
- fortynights 5mo agoSeriously, I’ve been subscribed to Claude for 18 months now ($20/mo) during which time I’ve seen the hype around other models come and go in a matter of weekends. I’ve just come to accept that everyone is largely commodity and sometimes it’s worth taking a longer view (provided one can afford it).
- mattas 5mo agoI've see a post like this every week for the last 2 years. Are these models actually getting worse? Or do folks start noticing the cracks as they use them more and more?
- PeterStuer 5mo agoI'm on max x5. No limit problems, but I am definetly feeling the decline. Early stopping and being hellbent on taking shortcuts being the main culprits, closely followed by over optimistic (stale) caching (audit your hooks!). All mostly mitigatable by rigorous audits and steering, but man, it should not have to be.
- moralestapia 5mo agoThe midwit curve of LLMs has OpenAI on both ends.
- ForOldHack 5mo agoI have token issues three times a day, and I just upgraded to pro... and now this... now I cancel. my work flow was co-pilot to Gemini to Claude Code... and the bottle neck was always CC. Always. I am done. It should be pretty easy to replace CC. AI used to be, the punched card replicator... its all replaceable.
- shevy-java 5mo agoThose AI using software developers begin to show signs of addiction: From "yay, claude is awesome" to "damn, it sucks". This is like with withdrawal symptoms now. My approach is much easier: I'll stay the oldschool way, avoid AI and come up with other solutions. I am definitely slower, but I reason that the quality FOR other humans will be better.
- joozio 5mo agoFunny. I thought I was the only one. Then I found more people and now you wrote about that. Just this week I also wrote about Claude Opus 4.7 and how I came back to Codex after that: https://thoughts.jock.pl/p/opus-4-7-codex-comeback-2026 https://thoughts.jock.pl/p/opus-4-7-codex-comeback-2026
- y42 5mo agoI like your blog and I can totally relate to this article - it's like something I wanted to write about for a couple of weeks now. :D https://thoughts.jock.pl/p/adhd-ai-agent-personal-experience-2026 https://thoughts.jock.pl/p/adhd-ai-agent-personal-experience...
- dostick 5mo agoThe discussion about Claude always omit the important context - which language/platform you’re using it for. It is best trained for web languages and has most up to date knowledge for that. If you use it for Swift it is trained on whole landfill of code and that gives you strong bias towards pre-Swift 6 coding output. Imagine you would give Claude a requirements for a web app, and it implements it all in JQuery. That’s what happens with other platforms.
- adamors 5mo agoIt’s not ommited, OP clearly talks about editing Javascript.
- exabrial 5mo agoIt's bad, really bad. The filesystem tool cannot edit xml files with <name></name> elements in it
- burnJS 5mo agoMy experience is Claude and others are good at writing methods and smaller because you can dictate what it should do in less tokens and easily read the code. This closes the feadback loop for me. I occasionally ask AI to write lots of code such as a whole feature (>= medium shirt size) or sometimes even bigger components of said feature and I often just revert what it generated. It's not good for all the reasons mentioned. Other times I accept its output as a rough draft and then tell it how to refactor its code from mid to senior level. I'm sure it will get better but this is my trust level with it. It saves me time within these confines. Edit: it is a valuable code reviewer for me, especially as a solo stealth startup.
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- ChicagoDave 5mo agoI think there’s a clear split amongst GenAI developers. One group is consistently trying to play whack-a-mole with different models/tools and prompt engineering and has shown a sine-wave of success. The other group, seemingly made up of architects and Domain-Driven Design adherents has had a straight-line of high productivity and generating clean code, regardless of model and tooling. I have consistently advised all GenAI developers to align with that second group, but it’s clear many developers insist on the whack-a-mole mentality. I have even wrapped my advice in https://devarch.ai/ https://devarch.ai/ which has codified how I extract a high level of quality code and an ability to manage a complex application. Anthropic has done some goofy things recently, but they cleaned it up because we all reported issues immediately. I think it’s in their best interests to keep developers happy. My two cents.
- camel_Snake 5mo agoFYI that prominent link to your sharpee repo on GitHub 404s
- ChicagoDave 5mo agoOMG (fixed) - I updated devarch to check all html links for accuracy. This came from a recent update to the website to simplify it and of course Claude completely hallucinated that URL. You can NEVER stop being vigilant. This is why I still have no faith in things like OpenClaw. Letting an AI just run off unsupervised makes me sweat.
- rglover 5mo agoDead on. Any company not thinking about this like the 2nd group is setting themselves up for a bad time (and sadly, anecdotally, that seems to be an emerging majority).
- ChicagoDave 5mo agoSadly, I agree that the majority are undisciplined.
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- sreekanth850 5mo agoBiggest issue i see is, models are not getting efficient. This is no where going to get commoditised. There will be a limit at which you can burn money at subsidised cost.
- wslh 5mo agoAnthropic is astroscaling. We're essentially buying into a loop where speed and iteration take precedence over stability and support. If you view them as an experimental lab undergoing rapid atmospheric friction rather than a company, the "unreliability" is just the cost of being at the frontier. This is not an endorsement for Anthropic, just imagining their craziness on how you "can" grow in a fraction of time.
- lukaslalinsky 5mo agoI feel like Opus 4.5 was the peak in Claude Code usefulness. It was smart, it was interactive, it was precise. In 4.6 and 4.7, it spends a long time thinking and I don't know what's happening, often hits a dead-end and just continues. For a while I was setting Opus 4.5 in Claude Code, but it got reset often. I just canceled my Max plan, don't know where to look for alternatives.
- captainregex 5mo agoanyone remember the whole “delete uber” thing from 2017ish? good times
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- duxup 5mo agoI’ve definitely encountered a drop in Claude quality. Even a simple prompt focused on two files I told Claude to do a thing to file A and not change file B (we were using it as a reference). Claude’s plan was to not touch file B. First thing it did was alter file B. Astonishing simple task and total failure. It was all of one prompt, simple task, it failed outright. I also had it declare that some function did not have a default value and then explain what the fun does and how it defaults to a specific value…. Fundamentally absurd failures that have seriously impacted my level of trust with Claude.
- kx_x 5mo agoAfter the fixes in Claude Code, Opus 4.6/4.7 have been performing well. Before the fixes, they were complete trash and I was ready to cancel this month. Now, I'm feeling like the AI wars are back -- GPT 5.5 and Opus 4.7 are both really good. I'm no longer feeling like we're using nerfed models (knock on wood)!
- rurban 5mo agoThat's bad for him, because he already had a cheap plan. Now he wont get it back that easy. Pro is gone. OpenAI plans are more expensive. He can only buy a Kimi plan, which is at least better than Sonnet. But frontier for cheap is gone. Even copilot business plans are getting very expensive soon, also switching to API usage only.
- josefritzishere 5mo agoAI has a lot of future potential but at every level... it's still not very good. And certainly not good enough to validate the expense, let alone what the actual cost would be were it profitable.
- _pdp_ 5mo agoSignup for all major providers (pro plan) and round-robin between all of them. This is the only way to protect against not having access to all of these heavily subsidised subscriptions. See what happened to Copilot.
- brachkow 5mo agoAs many others I had negative (not good as before) feeling about Claude Code lately What I don't understand is these loud "voting with money" comments. What they are canceling is very subsidized plan to buy something that delivers a lot of value. There are only two providers that can provide this level of models at very subsidized price - anthropic and openai. Both of them are bad in terms of reliability. So I wonder what these people do after they "cancel" both of them? Do they see producing less result at same hourly rate as everyone else on the market as viable option?
- gverrilla 5mo agoMy main problem with claude code right now is observability. I've been experimenting a lot with vibe coding, but nowadays I can't even tell what it's doing. It's still delivering me value, but the trust on the company is going down and I've already started looking for alternatives.
- dannypostma 5mo agoWhen I saw the German screenshot it all made sense to me.
- kissgyorgy 5mo agoI cancelled in the minute my subscription stopped working in Pi. Not going back to the slopfest what Claude Code is.
- vivin 5mo agoThis is interesting to me, because Claude has been a net-positive for me. I haven't faced token issues or declining quality. I generally work with Claude as an assistant -- I may have it do planning and have it "one shot" a thing, but it's usually a personal tool or a utility that I want it to write. For actual code that goes out to production, I generally figure out how I would solve the problem myself (but will use Claude to bounce ideas and approaches -- or as a search engine) and then have Claude do the boring bits. Recently I had to migrate a rules-engine into an FSM-based engine. I already had my plan and approach. I had Claude do the boring bits while I implemented the engine myself. I find that Claude does best when you give it small, focused, incremental tasks.
- airbreather 5mo agoI am sort of in the same place, it seems to have lost enough of the magic that I might be better trying to do more with running local LLMs on my 4090. The thing is running local LLMs will give some kind of reliability and fixed expectations that saves a lot of time - yeah sure Claude might be fantastic one day, but what do I do when the same workload churns out shit the next and I am halfway thru updating and referencing a 500 document set? Better the devil you know and all that.
- spaceman_2020 5mo ago4.7 is the breaking point for me It's almost unusable
- chadleriv 5mo agoOff topic: I do feel like this model switching content feels very circa 2010 "I'm quitting Facebook"
- AJRF 5mo agoWe are in the 'we need to IPO so screw our customers' phase of the cycle
- chaosprint 5mo agoI bought a Claude membership a few days ago. I asked him to fix a React issue—a very simple UI modification with almost no logic. He still failed to understand it. And after three attempts, the 5-hour limit was reached. This was a disaster. I had to immediately buy a CodeX membership and also tried Image2. I won't give Claude another chance.
- jryio 5mo agoI find it strange that you've anthropomorphized Claude but not ChatGPT seemingly based on one having a human name and the other not
- 0xchamin 5mo agoOne of the biggest problem with Claude is, it tries to do things that I don't even ask. I really like to have full control over what I do. I feel sometimes, Claude has the urgency to keep going with what it is hardcore programmed for instead waiting for my feedback. Looks like, Claude consider everything to be oneshot. I maybe wrong, this is my personal experience
- olcay_ 5mo agoClaude Code has something about picking sensible choices instead of asking questions in the system prompt, that's probably the problem.
- zulban 5mo agoCurious. Not my experience whatsoever. I tried Claude recently and it was able to one-shot fixes on 9/9 of the bugs I gave it on my large and older Unity C# project. Only 2/9 needed minor tweaks for personal style (functionally the same). Maybe it helps that I separately have a CLI with very extensive unit tests. Or that I just signed up. Or that I use Claude late in the evenings (off hours). I also give it very targeted instructions and if it's taking longer than a couple minutes - I abort and try a different or more precise prompt. Maybe the backend recognizes that I use it sparingly and I get better service. The author describes what sounds like very large tasks that I'd never hand off to an AI to run wild in 2026. Anyway I thought I'd give a different perspective than this thread.
- aucisson_masque 5mo agoFirst ever time I used ai to code was a week ago, went with the Claude pro because I didn't want to commit. The 20$ plan has incredible value but also, the limit are just way too tight. I'm glad Claude made me discover the strength of ai, but now it's time to poke around and see what is more customer friendly. I found deepseek V4 to be extremely cheap and also just as good. Plus I get the benefit to use it in vs code instead of using Claude proprietary app. I think that when people goes over the hype and social pressure, anthropic will lose quite a lot of customer.
- brunooliv 5mo agoI still haven’t seen any other models be as complete as Claude inside Claude Code. I bet Anthropic knows this and they turn the knobs and see people’s reactions… I have been planning with Qwen3.6 Max inside opencode, absolutely game changer. Opus can then follow the plan quite detailed and like this I can make progress on my toy apps on Pro plan at 20/mo. For work, unlimited usage via Bedrock. Yes I’d like to get more usage out of my personal sub, but at 20/mo no complains
- bryan0 5mo agoI see a lot of people struggling to work with agents. This post has a good example: > “you can’t be serious — is this how you fix things? just WORKAROUNDS????” If this is how you’re interacting with your agents I think you’re in for a world of disappointment. An important part of working with agents is providing specific feedback. And beyond that making sure this feedback actually available to them in their context when relevant. I will ask them why they made a decision and review alternatives with them. These learnings will aid both you and the agent in the future.
- aulin 5mo agoAfter you see it skip reasoning so many times and saying "actually the simplest fix is" the laziest thing ever you get kind of tired of babysitting it.
- philipwhiuk 5mo agoLike babysitting an intern.
- causal 5mo agoEven their explanations are often confabulations. Best case they point to something wrong in your prompt or agents files, but usually it’s just noise.
- arikrahman 5mo agoI use Aider nowadays, and will probably cancel my Github multi AI bundle subscription due to the new training policy. I find using Aider with the new open models and using Open Spec to negotiate requirements before the handoff, has helped me a lot.
- johanneskanybal 5mo agoIt's not magic but for me definitly claude is the way to go. Not expecting magic it's just another level of non-slop than the rest I've tried.
- tamimio 5mo agoVery similar experience, although I didn’t use claude for anything in production, but I did try some tests with some few topics and questions on things that I know, and while initially it works very well, but as soon as you dive deeper you get all sort of extra none sense that was never asked to add/do nor it’s useful, just workarounds after workarounds after duct tape solutions, several times I would say “no, why are you introducing xyz, that will cause this and that” to get similar answer of “thanks for pushing back, you are right bla bla”. We probably hit peak generative AI last year, now they probably use AI to improve the AI so it’s kinda garbage in garbage out, or maybe anthropic is deprioritizing users while favoring enterprise or even government where it provides better quality for higher contracts.
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- r0fl 5mo agoI hope codex doesn’t decline the same way I’m blown away by how good it is lately
- gexla 5mo agoWe can't do it. We standardized. They got us.
- Animats 5mo agoSupport? You expected support? Live support? Most of this is about the billing system, which is apparently broken.
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- smashah 5mo agoDid the same with Google Ai Ultra. They rug pulled the subscribers. They changed the deal, we cancel. Simple.
- taffydavid 5mo agoI know this thread is likely full of similar anecdotes, but I also want to share. My experience very suddenly and very clearly degraded over the last few days. Today I was trying to build a simple chess game. Previous one shots were HTML, this gave me a jsx file. I asked it to put it HTML and it absolutely devoured my credits doing so, I had to abort and do it manually. The resulting app didn't work, and it had decided that multiplayer could work by storing the game state only on local storage without the clients communicating at all
- datavirtue 5mo agoI have enterprise plans for all AI services except Google. GitHub Copilot in VS Code is the best I have used so far. I hear a lot of complaints from people who are holding it wrong. In a single day I can have a beautiful greenfield app deployed. One dev. One day. Something that would have taken weeks with two teams bumping into each other. It's fully documented. Beautiful code. I read the reasoning prompts as it flows by to get an idea of what is going on. I work in phases and review the code and working product quickly after that. Minimal issues. I'm an executive, the devs complaining are getting retrained or put on the chopping block. My rockstars are now random contractor devs from Vietnam. The aloof FTE grey beards saying "I don't know, it doesn't work very good on X." Are getting a talking to or being sidelined/canned. So far most of my grey beards are adapting pretty well. I'm not waiting on people to write code any more. No way in hell.
- jp0001 5mo agoMax x20 user here. As long as Opus 4.6 is available and they fix Opus 4.7, I'll stay with Anthropic. Tho, I'd imagine in 5 years we'll have Opus 4.6 equivalent performance available in an at home consumer model.
- kashunstva 5mo agoI’m sympathetic to the author’s complaints about Anthropic’s support, though I would go further. It doesn’t exist. For reasons that continue to elude me, almost exactly one year ago, Anthropic cancelled my Claude Pro plan. To appeal, you must fill out a Google docs form. And wait. In my case, I’ve waited for about one year. Once I managed to email with a human but they quickly plugged that hole with a chatbot that sends you back to their never-to-be-reviewed form. No route to escalate. A year gives one a long time to think about things. Maybe it was because I was on a VPN temporarily. Otherwise, no clue. I’m a hobbyist embedded developer. That’s it. So no, Anthropic support isn’t just poor; it’s nonexistent.
- erikbye 5mo agoI'm building a C++ game engine from scratch with CC. Renderer is Vulkan, no wrappers. Around 30k LoC now, quite a ways to go yet, but CC has been doing fine overall. Of course "he" runs in circles sometimes, but I always manage to nudge him back on track.
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- Fabulu 5mo agoIt's a client issue. It's a mystery to me why they don't fix it.
- fractalf 5mo agoHehe me too. Yesterday. Enough is enough. Using KLM5.1 and soon deepseek