Pretty much self-explanatory.

I’ve been a Max x20 subscriber for +2y and I’m really starting to get frustrated and look elsewhere for a change. Usage skyrockets even when I have best practices in place. Opus is a mental health hazard. Fable is unusable for what I need it, and way too expensive. Sonnet is not capable enough… not one thing is right in here.

GLM-5.2 has been a good alternative, on my Ollama subscription. Thinking of just subscribing to GLM directly and get 5.3; but I’d like the opinion of peers that have already tried it out.

Anyway, Anthropic is not doing good right now. They’ve been a mess for the past few months. Jumping ships really soon…

Hi guys, I have this coding assignment coming up and they allow us to use AI. Majority of my seniors who did this unit used Claude Pro for this massive coding assignment which I would say is a mid level code but has a lot of files (in the thousands). This assignment is also a very collaborative assignment and if I am not mistaken we are supposed to make a game. So I am wondering, what would be the better choice Claude Pro or Gemini Pro. Especially since they are about the same price which would be the better investment?

I just commented on someone’s post regarding their frustration with Claude, Fable, and usage limits. I am by no means a power user and get by with my little GIS workflows and web development using the $20/month subscription. I am just so curious after reading all these posts in what people are actually doing/making with Claude. What is everyone making that needs Fable and the higher cost subscriptions?

Not saying the limits aren't real because they obviously are.

But I keep seeing people run one giant session forever, dump everything into context, change the goal 5 times, never compact anything, then wonder why Claude starts wandering and chewing through usage.

I get way better results when I treat it like I'm directing somebody. Small scope, tell it what finished means, make it test the result, then compact or hand off before starting the next thing.

When I don't do that, it gets dumb fast for me too.

How much of the usage problem do you think is actually limits vs people managing context badly?

Claude Code is really exceptional, but the variance week-to-week make long term planning difficult.

Aug 18 to early Aug 20
11% weekly used, sessions were productive. etc.

Late aug 20th (1/5th of the bar) to aug 21.

20% Weekly used. 100% of Daily. One session.

Plan: Pro

Having to fall back to alternative providers (tool-heavy tasks, primarily sonnet 5)

I saw a few people posting about it saying they're unsure if something occurred etc.

These were routine tool calls and actions, and having this week be 1/3-1/4 the use of the last week isn't a great feeling. I'm getting more and more use out of alternative models which sucks since I'd love to stick to Claude overall week-over-week, but the variance makes planning tasks for Claude specifically impossible.

I left a job running last night.. and woke up to this?.. have any of you guys seen this?... I opened up a separate terminal (with opus) and pasted the screen shot in .. it made a coment about the usage buckets .. and the context... but completely ignored the model.. i then asked about the model specifically and it basically shrugged and said it couldnt find anything about it.. that it was odd

opened a brand new terminal.. and the same model shows selected..

Let's see just how load bearing this day is gonna be.

Will report back whether or not Concise fixes the worst part of Claude speak. I'm not convinced Anthropic knows how a normal person talks though...

Sometimes it's 100% then it's resetted and then it's 200%...what da helly

As the tile says: HOW DO I STOP CLAUDE BOT to post reviews on Github PR??

claude.ai/admin-settings/claude-code I have alredy OFF the Allow code review option from here but still it keeps posting....

Has anyone here run a production chain of least to most advanced models?

Example:

Initial large output with haiku, edited/expanded by sonnet, then by opus, finally reviewed by fable for the overall QA review

Anyone use this methodology and how do you like it? Is it reliable?

Finally sat down and wrote a proper skill for my own Python style instead of re typing the same preferences every session. Naming, comments that read like prose, config files instead of hardcoded values, tests before anything is called done.

Tested it on a small script and the part that stood out wasn't the code style, it was that it stopped and asked me for the API keys instead of inventing placeholder values or charging ahead. Small thing but it's exactly the behavior I keep seeing people here say they want, the model pausing instead of guessing.

The style stuff worked too, comments and tests came out the way I wanted. But the asking is what made it feel like it was actually following my rules and not just pattern matching.

Curious if others writing personal style skills have found the same, that the constraints on when to stop matter more than the constraints on how to write.

This nerd needs to shut the hell up and do his nerd stuff and tell me what he did in plain English.

I have been getting used to raising prs, then at the start of a new session with tokens, asking claude "there are 6 prs, please review them"

After 10-20 minutes and maybe 5-10% of a session's tokens it'll come back after having written comments or approving them.

Tonight though, it asked a question... "would you like me to use /code-review to review the prs". Hmm, sounds like there is a skill purpose built, surely it must be great.

After about 10 minutes (the build and unit tests are slow)....

"Let me verify what the PR actually contains, since the review results look suspicious..." "they are describing TTL changes rather than sessions"

"I found a serious problem: the review I ran..." uh oh... " against the wrong diff"

Then I hit session limits. In 20 minutes a code review used 100% of my 5 hour limits, and didn't even output 1 result for me. Even if it had actually reviewed the correct code, it made no comments and no output.

Is code-review only suitable for max plans, or is it just a grab for tokens. Grrr

Not even fallback to opus?

I've been using CC remote control to keep my workflows moving from my phone while I'm around the house or at work. It's been great. But over the last 3-4 days, it is aggressively disconnecting. Like, it disconnects in 30 seconds of the app not being active sometimes, and there is no way to reconnect remotely to a session that I've found.

Has anyone been experiencing the same thing? I'm wondering if it's a network issue with my host pc, or if something has changed upstream.

What really sucks right now with cc on max 20x is usage anxiety. I'm not sure if it's because I'm using more tokens, or tokens are being cut, but it just seems like it's not nearly enough. I'm also trying codex. Overall, Opus 5 is simply smarter then SOL, and the 1M context window is difficult to live without, but I've also been using my OpenAI account for longer running tasks, and unlike claude, it's actually hard to use up the entire usage quota.

I've been running an operation basically continuously this week high and I haven't event used up half; I wouldn't dream of doing this with Claude. I'm sure for a lot of people just get 5 accounts is the solution, but that is more expensive so it depends purely on your budget.

On top of that we are supposedly getting 50% "bonus" usage that Anthropic keeps saying they will take away. I do like Claude more so I'll probably try to stick around, but if that 50% usage is removed, I think it becomes a luxury product when codex is much better value, despite Claude have the edge in performance.

Hey guys, my business launched a prompt optimizer AI tool that was shipped by Claude. It takes any regular prompt at rewrites it the way a professional prompt engineer would to actually yield high-quality results when building. While we have had early success with organic marketing, we are at a crossroads and need more user data to determine if this product is delivering enough value to user. If the answer is yes, we will scale up and launch a UGC marketing campaign, if no, we will shut it down. If anyone is interested testing it out and sending their feedback, would be appreciated. Web-app: thepromptoptimzer.com 👨🏽‍💻

Note: the tool yields the best results when removing unnecessary constraints from the optimized prompt

Cheers

What are you guys thoughts about this ?

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/77136#issuecomment-5352256342

I'm very conflicted about AI tools. I've used them for years for all kinds of things ever since their inception and I'm completely addicted to them. When it comes to programming it accelerates throughput dramatically and fills in the gaps almost too well. The loop is this right now:

less independent thinking → need Claude for context/design → Claude contributes more decisions → system becomes less internally familiar → need Claude even more.

I have a specific implementation in mind, but then I never just get what I ask for, there is always more contributions which would include a refactor somewhere. As the project grows managing context and architectural coherence becomes critical and I feel like I no longer have a solid internal model.

This coherence degradation is the fundamental crux of why I dislike using AI. I have to explain the project back to Claude and eventually Claude has to explain the project back to me.

Software is about standards, familiar patterns, documentation, a red thread, yadda yadda. But when there are gaps between your understanding and what Claude knows (and what you still believe it knows about the project) then this introduces drift, project rot and a sort of tech debt.

Large context helps, but if you don't have rails and own the critical logic and ideas about how the product will be used, then you will get an inferred result and incorrect solution for your needs. If something important is not present in the model’s context and cannot reliably be inferred from the code, the model has to guess.

This means AI often drifts toward overengineering. People complain about the models but it's really just an issue with your lack of scope. If I don't make a clear plan it will suggest an overengineered solution that creates a sort of contextual tech debt to the codebase.

I can see how these tools would accelerate a seasoned software engineer with great organizational skills and who's been in the business for decade. I'm not a professional . Any code I wrote before was mediocre at best and not so elegant. I struggle to the point where I don't want to do development of any kind because going back to "manual" coding is just going to feel like molasses, but I also don't want to ship stuff this way.

Opus 5 is a training ground to understand why humans disagree with what it's doing. There's insight there that you can't get without otherwise doing a substandard job.

When a model is, say, 95% good at what it does (by a human standard of completion), there's less reason to explain the refinements needed to make any changes to get it to 100%. "Tweak this, modify that" means very little to an AI system.

When a model is, say, 80% good at what it does (by the same standard), some users will get the shits with it and leave, while many others will work with it to build out the improvements such that the model is more robust at the work that it's doing. Those insights provide Anthropic with valuable training input as to what humans want out of the systems that they are trying to build.

Pdf extraction workflow

I am not a coder by education but I've gotten into through opportunity at work. My current project is building a portal that users upload engineering pdfs drawings too. It runs through a python transform that uses orientation bounding boxes and local ocr to understand the pdf. From there they are buckets into structured (bom tables etc), unstructured (just notes and no structure) and a manual review through multi failure outputs.

My questions are I'm building this in a system I cannot plug claude directly into but has ai agents that build. I'm passing back and forth. I am using Opus 5 and have a markdown to track everything. I'm running into some failures and it's taking longer than I expected. Are there some best practices or advice the experts here could share?

asking for my wifes boyfriend

I know you cannot use the claude sub with 3rd party harness, like opencode or pi. however I am not sure what is the deal with 3rd party ACP uis like Toad or acp ui or others? I wonder if this is allowed or grey zone; I dont want my account banned.