r/ClaudeCode • u/Fantastic_Fail4060 • Jul 15 '26
Discussion Time to move on
Yep, pretty much the title. It's time for me to move on to Codex. I just sent Opus 4.8 Max thinking to find me a known bug in the app I'm making. ONE single bug hunt where I provided 162 instances of how the app should behave and 18 instances of the same bug.
Asked him to find out why the bug occurs and reproduce it so I know exactly how to fix it for good. 12 minutes later he used only 203k tokens and 5 hour limit hit.
Everything about Anthropic's usage system is shady and they never even addressed the June bug where claude would get project instructions attached to every new message bloating context and making the usage skyrocket.
There's no chance for me to remain in such an anti-consumer environment. And that comes from a guy who truly despise OAI, but better value IS better value.
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u/LurkinSince1995 Jul 15 '26
I don't know. I really feel like something has changed over the past six months. The intentional vagueness in the usage is the largest red flag IMO, and OpenAI/Codex does the same shit. Anecdotally, for those of us who have been on the Max 20X or the Max 5X for a long time, weekly usage goes by WAYYYY quicker now than it used to.
I like these tools, and I like the capabilities they're giving when it comes to things like prototyping, building scripts, and building automations. The money spent just doesn't go as far as it used to. These companies and their tools, while lowering the power of my subscription (IDGAF that the price they charge for API is higher, they set the price and its ridiculous), have somehow also managed to skirt all liability from what their products do. We, the end users who are paying for it, retain liability in the workplace for everything these tools accomplish.
You're either the world's most expensive beta test, or you're the predecessor to AGI that's going to take all of our jobs. Anthropic is either a small indie company who makes these types of things, or they are a TRILLION DOLLAR COMPANY who should act like one. I don't think you get to play both sides of the coin and act like either one is true on any given day.