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Posted by y42 17 hours ago

I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support(nickyreinert.de)
863 points | 506 commentspage 6
exabrial 14 hours ago|
It's bad, really bad.

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_pdp_ 13 hours ago||
Signup 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.
elevaet 15 hours ago||
I'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.
hybrid_study 15 hours ago||
Sometimes it feels like Anthropic uses token processing as a throttling tool, to their advantage.
smashah 3 hours ago||
Did the same with Google Ai Ultra. They rug pulled the subscribers. They changed the deal, we cancel. Simple.
r0fl 7 hours ago||
I hope codex doesn’t decline the same way

I’m blown away by how good it is lately

yalogin 15 hours ago||
If 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 15 hours ago|
Opencode 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 15 hours ago||
I 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-R...

sreekanth850 14 hours ago||
Biggest 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.
brachkow 12 hours ago||
As 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?

zendarr 16 hours ago|
Seems like some of the token issues may be corrected now

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem

minimaxir 16 hours ago||
These 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 16 hours ago||
I'm worried anything less than xhigh is insufficient though. What do you do?
giancarlostoro 16 hours ago||
The 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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