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  • Interesting wording:

      [...] that will make it feel like you’re getting more from Claude
    by bschwarz
  • Previously on the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49491631

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49491282

    by ChrisArchitect
  • What is going on? Why are everyone except OpenAI short on compute?

    Even Chinese ultra cheap providers are slowly reducing token plans or increasing prices.

    by throwa356262
  • Glad that I canceled my sub
    by JangoCG
  • I pay a $100 subscription which feels infinite for me, even using only fable... 2 weeks ago I started getting notifications of running out of credit... to me it feels more like 30% than 17%... OHHHH and surprise, I'm in my 50% boosted/higher limits... so this means I'll probably hit the $100 limit now constantly... I use the thing a bit... yesterday and it shows 14% of the week allocation used...
    by xlayn
  • I subscribed to Claude Pro for one month earlier this year. The subscription lasts as long as you chat with it in the UI. The moment you use Claude Code, it becomes useless and you keep hitting limits. So, great for hammering out a specification, not so great for actually writing and debugging code.

    I have a lot of hobby projects and cannot afford to drop $200/m for assistance from LLMs with above average intelligence. The Chinese models work quite well, and are cost effective, in comparison. My usage over the last few months:

    - Gemini / AI Studio = translations

    - Kimi 2.5 / OpenCode Go = Compiler/VM project, AI for some board games, a new document format and compiler for it,

    - DS4 Flash / DeepSeek (had some credits lying around) + OpenCode Go = Template-based OCR engine

    - MiMo 2.5 and MuseSpark 1.2 Contributor = The OCR engine + a product I am brainstorming + a lot of single page tools

    If you select models judiciously, and can write good AGENTS.md and extremely short but potent ARCHITECTURE.md documents, the $10 you pay to OpenCode Go will last a long while even when you consume a hundreds of millions of tokens (mostly cache hits) a day. You can get multiple models to perform code review of modules against the ARCHITECTURE you have specified and get other models to execute the fixes.

    by sieve
  • Meanwhile OpenAI resets everyone's weekly Codex limits back to 100% seemingly every other day as a kind of game.
    by BugsJustFindMe
  • Why tech companies never price things according to what they really cost. This new strategy of entering the market at a loss and then cranking up prices is getting old.
    by gonzalohm

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