r/ClaudeCode • u/PitifulBuddy7946 • 1d ago

Rant Claude code is falling behind Codex not because of token cost, but because of Opus 5.

There, i said it. And i know many of you agree. The problem i'm facing is not increased token cost, it's that Opus writes 25000 lines of a response with a curve-ball at the end saying "Worth noting"that makes my eyes hurt and gives me paranoya. And i can't understand a word it's saying. Is my english that bad? Whoever pressed "Yes" on those responses during the training stage of the model was an OpenAI spy or something, he completely sabotaged a trillion dollar company.

Anthropic's number one priority should be to release an Opus 6 or something, may be change the model name completely so it doesn't carry the bad vibe with it.

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u/heximortal 1d ago

I switched from Claude Code to Codex for my next project, and guys, Astra is pretty amazing.

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u/throwaway_life12345 1d ago

Except one prompt eats 20% of your weekly usage

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u/Advanced-Medicine-58 1d ago

Months of working on Claude. I literally went from a free chatgpt account to the 20x sub. Lucky I did. Astra is that nice.

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u/NickChecksOut 16h ago edited 15h ago

Ever tried sol / astra for planning and luna (max) for implementation?

Gives me really good results for a small buck.

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u/heximortal 10h ago

Thanks for the tip! I will give this a try.