> Claude

- Which tiers?

> Claude Ultra (as it's now called)

- Have you purchased multiple subscriptions from the same provider (eg two Claude accounts)?

> No. Only a paid ChatGPT (Pro I think) subscription I barely use.

2) Are you using models outside (or instead) of those subscriptions? For example, pay-as-you-go APIs, OpenRouter, or locally hosted models.

Yes. Primarily OpenAI models for some projects with "AI" integration(s).

- Which models and providers?

> OpenAI. Depends.

3) What coding harnesses and interfaces are you using? Are you sticking with the default CLIs or IDE integrations, or using alternatives like OpenCode, Pi, Aider, Muse Code, or custom-built harnesses?

Straight up Claude Code.

Lots of my own Skills, Commands and my own MCP servers.

- What made you switch harnesses (if you switched)?

> Tried Codex initially. Then Claude. Never looked back.

4) Are you using any agent orchestration or swarm tools?

> No.

- For example, Munder Difflin, Gas Town, Ruflo, or something custom.

> I'm building my own specialized "bots" and "agents".

5) Are you using broader agent platforms like OpenClaw / Hermes Agent / Grok bot / Dots / Muse?

> No. Not interested.

2) Yes, Anthropic models usually, at work. Pay as you go API. Company is trialing limits, routers and open weight and even local models. Since the Anthropic 5.5 models none seem reasonable to use any longer (for now at least)

3) Claude Code at work. Tried Aider early on and it failed to even read its initial context (Claude models like a year+ ago). I dropped it dead after that - unusable if you need me to specifically "load" and point our files. That's not agentic coding, sorry. Have not used the actual features my IntelliJ Ultimate subscription provides in quite a long time, though I loathe to tell IT/finance that. I do use it from time to time to double check what Claude tells me. Used `pi` w/ local models (some gemma and qwen that'd run on my hardware. nothing usable w/ the work code base - or much anything for that matter, like I'd not even get through an interview coding challenge with that if you ask me)

Did use Codex maybe like 8 months or so ago to ping pong implementation plans and reviews between GPT and Anthropic models but then just stuck with Anthropic for some reason.

4) Nope.

5) Nope. But we do have our own in-house review agent and software factory agent. Like think CodeRabbit et. al.

2) I have a 4090 which runs Qwen3.8-27b q4 fine with 180k ctx at q8. The model is capable enough to do things, but dumb enough to not be able to build elaborate nonsense like the bigger models love to do

3) I'm using https://github.com/juggler-ai/juggler which is alright. It could be a bit less vibecoded (and the readme and docs and all would benefit from less LLM writing), but, generally, the opinions shaping it seem decent, and I like just how much control over and insight into what happens it gives you.

I initially tried OpenCode, and, holy hell, what a mess. Do not ever use OpenCode. I also tried goose but it was too agentic for my taste.

4) No. I am doubtful that that kind of workflow can produce software I would deem worthy of production. I also personally just dread the whole overhead that is tickets, jira, etc, so recreating the same but now you're the manager seems like a personal hell to me.

5) No. I wouldn't know what for

2. I use OpenAI/Anthropic APIs for various workloads (app features, automations, etc.), but not for personal inference/coding. Recently both of these providers started giving $200/mo in API credits, and OpenAI already gives free tokens, so I don't usually pay for this usage.

3. I always use the provider's preferred CLI: Claude Code, Codex CLI, Grok CLI, Kimi CLI, Antigravity CLI, Muse CLI. I use this with herdr to manage everything, and then a small custom app to keep track of my usages since I hit limits quite often.

4. No. Just the CLIs. For very large projects I've found Claude Code to be the best -- it can very easily manage many subagents.

5. I've tried OpenClaw, Hermes, Dots, and Muse. I really just haven't found great use cases for these tools

I use Claude & Codex for most of my personal coding/projects. For the other providers I mostly want to have broad experience with different models/harnesses. It's very interesting to see how each performs and what kind of tasks they do/don't excel out. The only con of having cheap plans is you really can only give them simple tasks.

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At work I use AWS Bedrock w/ Anthropic + OpenAI models at API pricing. Each employee is given a rolling 28-day budget w/o access to Fable/Astra. I use the same Claude Code/Codex CLI + Herdr.

I spend about $5 a month with this setup.

Keeping it simple.

2. No (only the API for projects)

3. Buzzpot.app (my app)

4. No

5. No (I tried them, but couldn't find a use case for them)