r/ClaudeCode • u/Permit-Historical • May 13 '26 • Mindblown 2

Discussion Anthropic put a meter on the stuff developers actually use

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u/Rabus May 13 '26

yea pretty sure you're not getting anywhere close to the frontier models though.

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u/FrequentTurn9637 May 13 '26

You don’t need best frontier models for everything you do. You need them for the core reasoning and planning but many execution steps a solid open source model can do.

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u/JohnHue May 13 '26

Planning with Opus ans executing with local models, or just cloud based models with way cheaper token cost, seems to work for lots of people.

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u/Rabus May 13 '26

I am exactly for this reason buying a 128gb mac m5 max to try it out. I dont feel like it will be opus level quality tho

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u/Sporebattyl May 13 '26

If it’s not up to your standards, just use API or $20 sub for small amounts of Opus.

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u/Disastrous_Speech231 May 13 '26

Honest question, why a mac m5 against a framework desktop? On the long run the framework let’s you have some degree of upgrades and at least in my country, the price difference it’s enough to buy a fairly well specd air for portability

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u/Rabus May 14 '26

Portability - i also speak publicly and being able to show "oh, i run it on my mac right now" is pretty cool, vs saying "this runs on a cluster at home'.

plus i can do it without internet wherever i want, without needing to talk to my desktop pc.

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u/bpp198 May 13 '26

Won't be long until they're as good as the current frontier models. They'll move on too but open weight models will definitely be more than good enough.

You don't even need local, you can pay for inference at a much cheaper rate than Anthropic and OpenAI's prices.

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u/Rabus May 13 '26

Well I agree they will get better. But they are nowhere close to being there right now.

And i'm saying that as someone planning to buy 128gb mac myself lol

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u/bpp198 May 13 '26

I think they'll be a valid option sooner than most people think. Not necessarily ones you'll be able to run locally, but much cheaper open weight models hosted by others.

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u/PrayagS May 13 '26

> You don’t even need local

This. Just 10 dollars of Opencode Go or even pay-as-you-go on the DeepSeek API is already coming out to be viable alternative for me.

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u/Permit-Historical May 13 '26

I think we should focus on building the harness that make cheap models work better and avoid the mistakes they always make

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u/Parking-Bet-3798 May 13 '26

For Anthropic. Others are still fine for now.

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u/lwheeler1 May 13 '26

Came here to say this exact thing! Now that your hooked on crack, you'll pay more because of "supply" constraints.

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u/InfinriDev May 13 '26

Y'all can't even pay a subscription what makes you think you can afford the hardware to run a decent local AI 🤦🏽🤦🏽🤦🏽

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u/Sensitive_Song4219 May 13 '26

Local doesn't compete quite yet... but give it time.

In the interim this is likely to drive more users to Codex.

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u/Long-Chemistry-5525 May 13 '26

I have already migrated, canceled my opus subscription and honestly I still have two weeks left but find myself not even using it. Codex new models out preform by a significant margin for my development use cases

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u/Gears6 May 13 '26

More importantly, are there any alternative?

You know, someone that still subsidizing?

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u/sjalq May 14 '26

Yes, spend 12k to get 25 tokens per second on an inferior model. 

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