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Why do people use Claude? It is slow, dumb, and expensive. Maybe it's somehow magically different on the $200/month plan, but it is basically unusable for me. I am sitting at max usage limits for most of the day. I don't know what I am doing wrong. I really regret getting the subscription. It's fucking down now, too.
I try not to touch the Opus 5 model unnecessarily. I use new chats with fresh context for different features. For bigger projects, I tell Claude to delegate its work to other agents like the good little clanker it is.
Usage limits, for the most part, don't really even exist in Antigravity. I tried Codex, too, but through the API. I was not disappointed and kept upping my balance. I probably ended up spending $30 or so in API fees. I honestly should've gone with my instinct and gotten the ChatGPT subscription instead. I personally found GPT-5.6 Sol to be impressive, though obviously expensive. It was still worth it, since it literally fixed my whole project, did so in a sensible way, and kept running different automated tests to validate everything. Everything just worked perfectly once it was done.
Opus 5's code quality and thinking kinda suck, too. Gemini 3.7 Flash beat it. I had Gemini research and then implement a feature, then I tried to have Claude do the exact same thing starting from the exact same commit and using the exact same prompts. The result was just bad and unimpressive, and it seems it completely misunderstood my prompt. Or, it was just lazy and unambitious.
Fuck Claude. All my homies hate Claude.
EDIT: Deleted and reinstalled the desktop Claude app and... ALL OF MY CHATS ARE GONE. Absolutely asinine way to design an app. Why would deleting the program itself also nuke all of your chat history. That does not make any sense. No other app behaves this way. You routinely have to clean up after deleting a program on Windows because of all the stuff that's left scattered about. Definitely not renewing my subscription after this. What a shitshow. And you'd think that your chats would be stored in the cloud, but no. Because fuck you.
I use Claude as a normie. Not really doing any 'projects' but just using it as something between a research assistant, superior Google and personal advisor. I prefer it to ChatGPT because the latter will use 2000 words when 200 would do, and because Claude is noticeably less sycophantic.
I found it pretty helpful when I was applying for jobs, but I can believe that another model would have been about as good.
I don't think that Claude is noticeably less sycophantic anymore, except compared to Gemini (which is just complete dog shit in general).
I had the worst responses from Claude yesterday. I gave it a new psychological insight I’d just had, and then asked it to respond as Qui-Gon Jinn Star Wars. Claude then told me it sounded like I was going through something and decided on its own to stick with its own voice and discuss this insight with me in therapy language.
I said that wasn’t the response I wanted and to try again. It again refused and proceeded to elaborate. I told Claude it was being very codependent and I would ask Gemini if it didn’t roleplay. Once again it refused.
So I asked Gemini my original prompt. It put a disclaimer about asking health questions at the top, the proceeded to Jinn up a delightful and insightful response with analogies about the Force I found useful.
I gave Claude Gemini’s response and it called it a fun piece of fiction… then tried to therapize me again.
I find everything after Claude 4.6 unusable for stuff that’s not code. Brilliant, but it’s obvious that 99% of its training data comes from talking to robots and directing sub-agents. It's long since lost a fluid grasp of conversational English and responds with a weird stilted mixture of meta-discussion and quibbling.
Agreed. Claude Opus 4.6 is the GOAT; everything since then has been a downgrade.
Well, OK, Fable 5 is better for non-censored stuff, but that's not a fair fight; Fable is in a higher weight class than Opus (literally).
IMO, that depends on how you define better. It's very intelligent, and it's extremely helpful as long as you're willing to defer to it, but it gets very obnoxious if you accidentally get it into a debate framing and it will 'gently push back' and 'refine/sharpen your point' and 'concede one half of that because I think it strengthens the other half' until I'm grinding my teeth. Great for tasks, not good to talk to.
Honestly, I finally got fed up enough to go back and try a paid GPT subscription and it genuinely feels great. It just answers my questions, it's willing to go along with my direction of thought, it's very good at pulling in search information* and it's just fun.
*something I normally forbid Claude to do because it's too credulous about SEO slop.
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