I just canceled Claude Code and Codex today.

RIP.

Claude literally refuses to finish tasks in auto mode and just keeps saying, now is a good stopping point, when it's 1% done (and doing the EXACT OPPOSITE of what I tell it).

Codex is barely better...

May as well pay 1/20th the price for DeepSeek.

Claude seems to have something that looks at how long you've been a customer and then just massively degrades quality.

When I started my subscription, Claude had none of these problems.

2 months into subscriptions Claude is completely unusable garbage, and Codex is not much better.

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dawnerd an hour ago | parent | next [-]

That was my experience with Claude code too. Someone will come and tell you you're doing it wrong. Hard to do it right when it'll just stop randomly, especially when it ends with something like 'let me know if you want me to continue!'.

	▲	onlyrealcuzzo an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Claude Code has been so unbelievably terrible this entire week that I CANNOT believe it's the same model I was using weeks ago. I am completely convinced they just screw over their customers after so much usage or so long of a subscription thinking they have them for life. I have NEVER been so happy to cancel a subscription.

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eiek 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They’re playing games behind the scenes to massage and manage their earnings.

China is gonna win long term there’s no doubt. The fact that the American firms haven’t created immense escape velocity despite the disparity in spending is quite telling.

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zozbot234 an hour ago | parent [-]

The nice thing about hosting inference locally is that you can be sure you're not being rug-pulled in any way. This doesn't really help China 'win' though, it's just freeloading on them making their weights openly available.

	▲	onlyrealcuzzo 34 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The good thing is, we're only 2.5 years away from a top of the line MacBook having better local inference than CC Opus does today. That's more than good enough if you're actually getting what CC Opus is capable of. I've never been so excited for the future.