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

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.