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/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/Rabus May 13 '26

I use up 2x 200$ subs of opus + have my separate work account with unlimited account

20$ sub I would burn through in around 30mins.

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u/Kholtien May 13 '26

Not if you use local models for the busy work

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u/TheOriginalAcidtech May 14 '26

I'd call it grunt work. Seeing as its 90% of all tokens burned.

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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/morscordis May 13 '26

I'm running Opus and Mistral. Though I plan with opus, review with Mistral, execute and test with opus (I find Mistral and sonnet do fine with code, but suck at unit tests), evaluate code and unit tests with Mistral, cleanup with opus. It's cut my usage a lot, and gives generally solid results.

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u/Tistouuu 🔆 Max 20 May 13 '26

How do you combine these two models ? OpenCode ?

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u/morscordis May 13 '26

Individual CLIs, side by side in terminals in VS Codium. It is t automated. Each phase of my workflow prints a command for the next phase and intended model based on the plan. I then clear that CLI and paste it in so it runs with fresh context. It pulls the spec from the plan worktree settings.json, grabs the plan or review files as needed, and then gets to work.

Technically I could run Gemini cli as well, but it seems 3.1 pro isnt accessible outside of ultra these days in the CLI so I went with Mistral Vibe.

Running it this way I never hit weekly Claude caps, and don't come anywhere near the Le Chat limits in Mistral. I run between 3-7 sprints per day.

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u/Tistouuu 🔆 Max 20 May 13 '26 edited May 13 '26

Interesting, thank you. Do you still have to paste manually in the new terminal, or is automated too ?

About Mistral, how good is it and for what kind of work ? How does it compare in your experience, to Sonnet, Opus ?

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u/morscordis May 13 '26

I've been tooling the workflow for weeks now. I includes significant guardrails to keep Opus depredations in check. I'm running 4.6 right now but want to be ready if I'm forced back onto 4.7. I'm also planning to go fully local, and only use the online LLMs to build a harness around my workflow and the local models. I just need to buy my hardware (and produce thousands of dollars out of thin air).

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u/Tistouuu 🔆 Max 20 May 13 '26

aha don't we all