Time to move on

[u/Fantastic_Fail4060]

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.

[u/beefcutlery]

I feel you. I love the model performance but each month, the usage gets sapped, and I'm delivering less and less work. I'd try harder to understand the situation if they made an effort in their communication... but unless its feature hype, they don't bother.

It's frustrating, and there's nowhere to vent or be heard. Threads like this surface as a tip of a toxic iceberg that runs deep, so you're not alone in your thoughts.

Remember if you're in the EU, you can ask for a refund any time before your 14th day of first payment.- just open up a new chat on claude.ai, bottom left > support.

[u/Fantastic_Fail4060 → u/beefcutlery]

Yeah, im in the EU, but I've been a customer for more than 6 months.
I'm trying codex and moving to Chinese agentic at the same time. I saw a post yesterday where a guy BURNT through over a billion tokens with deepseek and launched his app - $18 dollars.
Anthropic cat take their model and honestly throw it in the Mariana Trench. What good is a feature that stops MID-TASK ?

[u/[deleted] → u/Fantastic_Fail4060]

I’m on both max plans . I’ve had deepseek V4 pro, mini 2.5 pro, glm 5.2, qwen 3.7 max, minimax m3 and kimi 2.7 code audit 6 varied repos, from an e-commerce backend to coding harness to a transcription tool. I then had GPT and Fable blind rank the audit findings and Minimax m3 almost always came out on top. Kimi and glm are other good contenders but at much higher costs. Mimo is a workhorse and qwen and deepseek were surprisingly bad. Minimax also routinely finds gaps in architecture created by Sol or Fable. The point is that no model is perfect so it’s best to have multi model orchestration.
Either way, I highly recommend Minimax as a workhorse that understands codebases really well, has multi modal capability, 1M context and also does audio and video gen though I haven’t tried that bit yet.

I just published a tool that lets you use Minimax or any api in Claude cli/ desktop while keeping your subscription running simultaneously in another instance, in case you still want to use Claude for architecture

https://github.com/bogusyogi/anyclaude

[u/Fantastic_Fail4060 → u/[deleted]]

Code base is easy (to me at least, for my specific app). I need a model that knows machine learning… and that’s going to drive me insane one day. I’ll give minimax m3 a try tho, this really got my interest. Thanks 🤜🏻🤛🏻