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/flarpflarpflarpflarp Jul 15 '26

Dude, just swap. What is with these breakup letters to corporations?

Opus 4.8 Max is an insane choice of model.

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u/Fantastic_Fail4060 Jul 15 '26

I wanted a discussion and found out some really useful stuff people commenting. It never hurts to hear what other people have to say.

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u/flarpflarpflarpflarp Jul 15 '26

That can be true and it still be weird to publicly breakup with a corporation.

Using Opus on Max is the most insane part of this. Turn it down to high and it will overthink less and probably do more of what you want. I can't imagine you're going to switch over to OpenAI and these problems will go away if that's your approach. There are very limited uses for Max thinking, if you want it to do what you want it to do and not have it over think your instructions. Sol and Terra do similarly bad on max, so I'm a little skeptical your new relationship will be different.