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Tell HN: It's official, I'm done with Claude

7•ra0x3•1h ago
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After months of trying to give Claude (Opus 4) the benefit of the doubt, I simply can't ignore the truth anymore. It is just awfully bad compared to Codex (5). Anthropic being the smaller player, I've tried to be patient with, and faithfully pay my $100/mo, but at this point, Claude will readily do some of the dumbest $hit, and do it so _randomly_ that I simply can't justify paying my money to this anymore. When this subscription ends I'll almost exclusively dump it it into Codex $200/mo.

If anyone from Anthropic is reading this, Claude's ability to just randomly, at some point in the day - say/do what might be the literal most idiotic thing I've ever seen, causes me to almost get physically angry. I'm so dumbfounded by it. It's too eager, too fast, and often, too wrong.

</rant>

Comments

begemotz•1h ago
I am not a professional coder. However, I have typically seen people respond more favorably to Code compared to other systems including Codex (percentage-wise). I'm curious to know what exactly you feel is inferior?

On the other hand, recently for me, the usage limits in Claude have been inconsistent and frustrating. I seem to get a lot less out of it than I have in the past and am considering trying one of the other big 3 sub plans to see whether it suits my use case more.

blinkbat•1h ago
We're talking models, not systems.
blinkbat•1h ago
It does seem to wildly fluctuate lately. Codex is much more consistent. Must be that DoW money... :/
claytongulick•23m ago
Serious question here.

Have you taken a moment to step back and truly evaluate your productivity when using LLMs for code generation?

I don't mean the obvious confirmation-bias tickling stuff like "create a form with these fields and validation".

I mean from a whole-system, total effort analysis, from idea to production, support and maintenance.

I'm curious what you find.

My current theory is that the industry will land in a place where LLMs for code generation are frowned upon for non-trivial work, but that they are embraced for tooling, summarization and explanation.

I think these things have real, concrete value, but that it's a mistake to substitute them for human reasoning - and human reasoning is a crucial characteristic of quality code.

The thing I'm not sure of is whether the current "good enough is good enough" approach to vibe coded solutions will be sticky, or in what contexts.

MS Access still powers entire business departments, because good enough is good enough.

dangus•16m ago
This will win my award for the lowest value post I’ve read for the month of March 2026.

Unless someone would like to post something like “I prefer Twix over KitKat bars.”

add-sub-mul-div•9m ago
The only useful thing that came out of this is that I learned there are people paying price points above ~$20/month for this stuff. Incredible.
MeetingsBrowser•12m ago
> faithfully pay my $100/mo ... the literal most idiotic thing I've ever seen ... causes me to almost get physically angry ... I'm so dumbfounded

I think maybe you should consider stepping back from LLMs for a while. Take a break. The models and tooling will improve and you can try again later.

Keeping up with latest trends is not worth your health.

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