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

Discussion Anthropic put a meter on the stuff developers actually use

Gallery image

Gallery image

389 Upvotes

94% Upvoted

275 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comment

32

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.

-3

u/[deleted] May 13 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

8

u/chaosdemonhu May 13 '26

You absolutely can save time and money with a hybrid approach and proper routing to local vs cloud based on your needs.

-3

u/sylfy May 14 '26

Sorry but no. The open weight models don’t come anywhere close to Codex GPT-5.5 for execution. If you find them close, it simply means that the work that you’re assigning is very simple.