(Zero reason to defend Anthropic.)

I’ve gone that route. I really wanted to stop using Claude, but Deepseek v4 Pro and Kimi 2.6 didn’t do the job. For a lot of coding tasks or well-specced plans, maybe… but then that’s a plan made by Opus anyway.

Even Sonnet is sometimes not worth the trouble. Opus is very thorough and reviews its own mistakes quite well. Catches a lot of edge cases.

I’m not saying we shouldn’t try other things — I did! —, but it’s more or less okay that people just like Claude Code subscriptions? The back and forth I had with Kimi on a small feature came out to ~1.8€, which is 10% of my Claude subscription each month. And that was a single session. CC with Serena uses tokens fairly well.

/advisor is like the old /opusplan mode but for running tasks not just pre-planning. It can work nicely with Sonnet as the main agent and escalates to Opus as needed.