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nikolay • today at 6:01 AM • 3 replies • view on HN

Opus 5.5 burns tokens like there's no tomorrow! Meanwhile, GPT 6.1 Sol on Extra High feels unlimited! Opus (on Max 20x) munches my weekly quota in a day, or two at best. Meanwhile, working with Codex and reviewing with a $50/mo Muse Code Wonder Full seems like it can go own forever (on the same codebase, the same skills, etc.) I am highly disappointed by the overly glorified Opus and Claude Code in general - there's no commit in which Codex or Muse Code or GitHub Pilot don't find critical flaws! I have long sessions of Claude Code having over 100 review cycles of Codex and still not addressing all the valid issues that Codex finds in Claude Code's work! Claude Code keeps injecting British English into prose and identifiers with nothing being able to stop it! Of course, there are almost never resets for Claude Code either - they would rather me focus on Codex being my primary and Claude Code being the reviewer (it works much better than in reverse). Anyway, enver trust a single model! Always review with another frontier one!


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deadnomore • today at 6:15 AM

100 review cycles sounds like a lot of arbitrary churn, I can get most models to review and endlessly find things to “improve”

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thunfischtoast • today at 6:30 AM

If you tell a model to find flaws, it will find flaws. What qualifies as critical to you?

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xyzsparetimexyz • today at 7:02 AM

What on earth are you working on that you're burning this many tokens? i can survive the regular 1x pro subscription just by using Opus on low and not medium/high

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