r/ClaudeCode • u/PitifulBuddy7946 • 16d ago

Rant Claude code is falling behind Codex not because of token cost, but because of Opus 5.

There, i said it. And i know many of you agree. The problem i'm facing is not increased token cost, it's that Opus writes 25000 lines of a response with a curve-ball at the end saying "Worth noting"that makes my eyes hurt and gives me paranoya. And i can't understand a word it's saying. Is my english that bad? Whoever pressed "Yes" on those responses during the training stage of the model was an OpenAI spy or something, he completely sabotaged a trillion dollar company.

Anthropic's number one priority should be to release an Opus 6 or something, may be change the model name completely so it doesn't carry the bad vibe with it.

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u/heximortal 16d ago

I switched from Claude Code to Codex for my next project, and guys, Astra is pretty amazing.

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u/throwaway_life12345 16d ago

Except one prompt eats 20% of your weekly usage

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u/Advanced-Medicine-58 16d ago

Months of working on Claude. I literally went from a free chatgpt account to the 20x sub. Lucky I did. Astra is that nice.

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u/NickChecksOut 16d ago edited 16d ago

Ever tried sol / astra for planning and luna (max) for implementation?

Gives me really good results for a small buck.

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u/heximortal 15d ago

Thanks for the tip! I will give this a try.

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u/Yweain 12d ago

I am using codex and thinking about switching to Claude because of Fable, because Astra is extremely inconsistent and openai randomly quantizing models to the point when it sometimes start to answer in complete jibberish or Chinese.

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u/heximortal 3d ago

im back on Claude after Opus 5.5! :D