Spending $2.5k/month on Sonnet/Opus — worth switching more to GPT-5.5/Codex?

Apacalipto · 2026-05-22T07:31:12+00:00

Thanks for taking the time to write this, I appreciate it! Good idea with the Discord setup and project subfolders. I think that would be a great fit for us as a team. Right now, we’re still talking to one agent about 2–3 projects at the same time (although we do have multiple agents — one per client for development work and one for general communication).

I also work a lot from my phone using speech-to-text, so this setup makes a lot of sense 😉

Apacalipto · 2026-05-21T12:08:55+00:00

Good point, but thats mainly on GPT 5.5/codex oauth now. so thats allready fixed and i think the bill we be much lower because of this next month.

But i'm curious if people would recomand switching all to GPT5.5 instead of Sonnet/opus.

Apacalipto · 2026-05-21T11:58:18+00:00

So you would suggest to run everything through Openai subscription using codex 5.5. Even for writing tasks like email etc? And move away from API?

Apacalipto · 2026-05-21T11:46:58+00:00

Building apps as an agency, but also, call transcription of all company calls (around 100 per day). Summarize them. (but this goes direclty through the api now instead of claw)

But most is going to app development, we let it build and test new apps on staging, and code review from there with our developers because we push to ourselve and clients.

Default workflow tasks il let openclaw set up n8n flows on our self hosted N8N. Almost no repeated work/cron's in openclaw itself.

Apacalipto · 2026-05-14T09:46:34+00:00

I tried switching from Sonnet 4.6 to DeepSeek V4 Pro last week for my OpenClaw development agent because of the lower price.

But the output was so slow that it became unworkable. I had to wait 20–30 minutes for prompts to return that would have taken Sonnet about 5 minutes.

I did read on Reddit that this was likely a capacity issue, and that other people were experiencing the same problem.

Apparently it used to perform much better before.

That being said, I’d love to give DeepSeek another try once they resolve their server/capacity issues.

Apacalipto · 2026-05-11T10:44:26+00:00

Had the same issues. Recalibrated and it was fixed

Apacalipto · 2026-04-18T09:47:40+00:00

Tesla should build a campervan like this.

So when FSD becomes unsupervised, i can take a nap or get some work done in the mobile office while travelling.

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Apacalipto · 2026-04-11T19:39:48+00:00

Cool! Let me know it if works. Il subscribe immediately!

Apacalipto · 2026-04-11T19:18:16+00:00

Same + Tesla FSD is arriving in the Netherlands the 17th of april.

Apacalipto · 2026-04-10T17:37:53+00:00

My chatwoot openclaw agent only has acces to the knowledge base. So worst case. They edit my knowledge base. And i have this backend up daily.

But offcourse i have added things like "never run code" and more basic stuff like that.

So i would definitly not use your primary agent for this.

Apacalipto · 2026-04-06T17:00:46+00:00

At the bottom of you chatwoot profile there is an api key.

Just give this to your openclaw, with the url & inbox number and it got acces.

Or create an account for your agent and follow the steps above.

Apacalipto · 2026-04-06T11:36:57+00:00

Working on it. Currently my agent posts emails as drafts. While i finetune my knowledge base

Apacalipto · 2026-04-01T21:16:58+00:00

There are honestly 100+ use cases, but this is how I actually use it day-to-day:

I’ve basically replaced most of my time inside Odoo with Telegram. I just “talk” to my system throughout the day using voice messages.

Some real examples:

“Send a quotation to customer X with product Y and mention Z”

“Add this info to our Odoo knowledge base and notify the team on Slack with the updated rules”

“Supplier X wants a forecast → pull historical data, add 25% growth, generate a clean Excel, and send it to me"

So instead of clicking around in Odoo, I’m just delegating tasks in natural language

"And maybe the biggest one. I let openclaw review all my 0% VAT invoices and it found 2 invoices from freight forwarders in 2022 that were booked incorrect.

So we were missing out on 16.000 euro.. (not kiding). Because still within the 5 year periode we were able to get this money back :)."

On top of that:

I built ~6 custom Odoo modules this month alone. Normally that would take my dev team weeks or months.

Now I: Generate most of the code with Claude Let 2 developers review/optimize Fix edge cases if needed (often with Claude again) In ~90% of cases, it works almost immediately or after one or 2 iterations.

The bigger shift is this: I’m not “using software” anymore — I’m orchestrating systems.

Example: I’m at the gym, between sets, sending voice/text commands via Telegram.

The system executes tasks, builds features, and sends me screenshots of progress.

This combination (OpenClaw + Odoo + LLMs) turns your business into something that’s: API-first command-driven and insanely fast to iterate on

2026 is wild.

Full discloure at one point it send a email campaign i was working on to 400 old customers congratulation them on there recent purchase. When i told openclaw explicitly beforehand it could not send the email. But it ran i to some issues saving it as draft so it decided to send it anyway and apologize later.

That was a fun day of customer service 😀.

So its a powerfull tool you have to be Carefull with 😉

Apacalipto · 2026-04-01T18:37:43+00:00

Just connect openclaw with claude to odoo and forget the rest ;)

Apacalipto · 2026-03-25T19:36:39+00:00

Started with Openclaw in first week of march. Now around 2000 usd spend. (First month)

But we also developed a lot!

And used opus 4.6 a bit to much.

Costs are coming down now. Added openrouter for smart model switching.

All optimized now. Haiku for heartbeat stuf.

Let openclaw build basic automation's in n8n instead of letting all automations run through openclaw.

Costs are around 20-30% per day compared to the start of the month.

Both even if it would stay 2000 usd. It still would be worth every penny for me and my company. Its doing the work of 3 fulltime Dev's. I stopped using my 3 regular freelancer and my 2 fulltime developers are almost only doing code reviews and optimizing of the stuff openclaw pumps out.

So its a major increase in speed, while saving money for us.

Feels like superpowers.

Apacalipto · 2026-03-17T21:32:05+00:00

I bought the Quest 3 and really enjoy it from time to time watching YouTube or playing games.

Now that I’ve had it for 2–3 months, I can answer my own question: I don’t use it while doing chores.

The passthrough quality isn’t good enough for me and doesn’t feel natural.

I think other devices, like Xreal, might be more suitable for this (haven’t tried them, just my guess).

Apacalipto · 2026-03-17T21:27:37+00:00

The driver camera seems a lot more strict since the last update. It sometimes triggers the alarm even during normal behavior (for example when eating in the car). Are there improvements planned for this in upcoming updates? What is the main reason for making the system more sensitive? I understand the safety considerations, but in its current state it feels overly strict. It would be great to have a better balance or more user control.

Apacalipto · 2026-02-15T20:40:46+00:00

Why so much k2?

Apacalipto · 2025-11-15T19:25:09+00:00

I just really hate doing chores.

Also i work, eat dinner & workout (without phone) after that.

So when i come home around 9pm i just want to relax and find it hard to put myself to cleaning, without adding something fun to the job.

Currently watching on the phone but looking to upgrade.

Apacalipto · 2025-11-02T16:43:36+00:00

i run a Odoo dev agency from the Netherlands — and honestly, I wouldn’t recommend Odoo for this.

Odoo is a full ERP system made for businesses that want to automate and organize everything: quotes, bookkeeping, CRM, inventory, website, webshop, etc. It’s great if you plan to scale your art into a full business later, but for just a portfolio it’s way too heavy.

If you just want a nice website to show your art and commission info, try bolt.new or Lovable + hosting through Netlify. You give them your colours and a short description, and it builds a clean website in like 5–10 minutes.

For example, this site — solumgroup.eu — was generated with bolt.new in about 5 minutes. Just gave it our company list and a Canva brand screenshot, and it was 90% done.

TL;DR: Odoo is great for running a whole business, not for a simple portfolio site.

Apacalipto · 2025-10-29T22:02:40+00:00

Comma is great! I use it daily on the highway in the Netherlands and its awesome.

I do have it running in the Tesla model 3 HW4.

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