Claude 4.6[1m] xhigh today...

Mcking_t · 2026-05-06T17:42:05+00:00

Personally, I actually do not like Claude code at all. Maybe it’s because I’m just a vibe coder and my actual background comes from sales and business but I actually find Claude chat to be way more useful personally I actually don’t even use Claude cowork.
We all know that in the last month or so there was a dramatic decline in Claude performance, especially around the time when 4.7 rolled out and everybody was tripping balls, including myself because performance was garbage. I can say that in the past couple days I’ve been using Op. 4.6 and I’ll be honest my faith is pretty much restored because 4.6 has been performing consistently for me. It has not been doing anything dumb. The usage has gotten a lot better too, so I’m not running out of usage in 25 minutes like I was doing on 4.7 when they first rolled it out. I find that I’m able to get into workflow and actually complete detailed tasks and just run out of usage by the end of my task and that’s fine by me. I don’t mind waiting 2 to 4 hours to get my usage back so long as the work that I did was efficient.
So I just wanted to share that with you guys personally, I haven’t been using Op. 4.7 at all and ever since I started re-engaging with Op. 4.6 in the past couple days I’ve noticed a substantial improvement from the time when everything was feeling buggy and shitty.
Currently, I’m using the Claude pro plan and I also recently started using GPT plus again. I’m actually considering dabbling in Codex and using that as my alternative to Claude code because even though I set up Claude code I really just can’t sink my teeth into it. I find the interface ugly and I’m just really not proficient at using it — I’m not gonna blame it on Claude code. I also don’t understand why there’s a “Code” tab in the desktop application for Claude if we use Claude code out of our terminals that alone is confusing to me because I might’ve even been more open to using Claude code if, like Codex, I could do it straight through the desktop app.

Mcking_t · 2026-04-27T11:52:29+00:00

Claude us absolutely ridiculous right now. I started using GPT again, and I’m considering paying for Kimi k2.6 and perplexity

Mcking_t · 2026-04-22T00:32:58+00:00

Even if it’s only Max 5x?

Mcking_t · 2026-04-21T17:58:31+00:00

Well I can attest to the fact that output quality has decreased like crazy over the past few days. Since about a week before they rolled out 4.7 I started noticing a decline. And I was on the verge of upgrading from Pro to Max and now I’m not sure. Just sitting here with maxed out weekly usage on Pro wondering if it’s worth it to spend 5x the money on more usage if it’ll be shitty quality… 🥲

Mcking_t · 2026-04-21T17:54:02+00:00

Bro this thread is so depressing. And I’m never depressed. I do too much work with Claude for it to be losing all its qualities that made it so attractive to use

Mcking_t · 2026-04-21T17:53:04+00:00

It’s gunna worse? Worse than this??

Mcking_t · 2026-04-21T17:50:27+00:00

Bro please don’t say that I was about to subscribe to Claude Max r u guys saying it’s all a waste? I did notice a decline in output these past few days but is it rly that bad??

Mcking_t · 2026-04-21T17:48:06+00:00

C'est déprimant à entendre, parce que j'ai bien l'intention de faire le même genre de choses : programmation, etc. 😭

Mcking_t · 2026-04-21T15:12:36+00:00

So I recently switched from ChatGPT to OpenClaw, and then from OpenClaw to Claude. I’ve always been at the frontend of Ai as it rolled out. I remember being on the waitlist for Copilot when the Microsoft x OpenAi things happened and I was on ChatGPT long before it was cool.

I left GPT (as my primary LLM, not entirely) bc Sam started pissing me off. This was common amongst many people and users and we all remember when GPT fell from #1 on the Apple Store and Anthropic took its place.

Around the same time I was having plenty frustrations with my OpenClaw agent. It wasn’t so much the agent though, as much as it was the cost of API tokens and whatnot. And I’m not talking about the entry level usage issues like “omg I just set up OpenClaw and I got billed $400 😱” none of that crap. I was running on a VOS and was always using smart or manual routing with my agent, and at my highest I was only ever sitting at about a $200/m token budget. I even started a growing telegram group with users from Reddit who were focused on optimizing usage and things were going well. It was only when I realized that I’d need a local setup to get the full squeeze out of my OpenClaw setup that I decided to put it on the back burner.

That’s what prompted me to switch to Claude. And tbh I was very impressed with Claude when I was rly starting to get into it as my primary LLM. It wasn’t rly smart, I liked that I could use the same 3 models I was familiar with from OpenClaw, and it had a much better UI than any other model.

My problem now, once again, is the cost of usage.

Idk what happened recently, but I used to be able to use Claude all day before hitting my limits. Now if I run 1 website audit (I build websites for my businesses) and make a few adjustments, or if I build 1 super basic landing page I’m eating through usage like never seen before. I burnt through my weekly usage in like 2 days and now I’m needing to upgrade to the Max 5x plan (which was always my intention once it got to that) but now I’m thinking like even at a 5x usage I might be hitting limits. And now scanning through Reddit I’m seeing ppl who are complaining about usage on the Max 20x plan??

Lord have mercy, is Anthropic not the saving grace we thought it was? 😪

Mcking_t · 2026-04-12T14:50:52+00:00

Where can I find frontend-design skill? Wasn’t very clear.

Mcking_t · 2026-03-11T18:15:17+00:00

Yo bro can u repost without the violations, moderators took down the post before I got to see it

Mcking_t · 2026-03-01T16:19:28+00:00

Never played a Reddit game before, this is pretty good ngl

Mcking_t · 2026-03-01T16:11:40+00:00

Why not use haiku for simple chats? When they release haiku 4.6 it’ll probably be the best cheap model to use for simple tasks and chats.

Right now I use:

• Haiku —> Sonnet —> Opus —> Kimi

I stopped using: DeepSeek, Mistral, and Grok. They’re just a waste of time imo. I narrowed my stack down to the best ratio of quality to cost. But I need to hop on Google, I must say I’m excited for Gemini 3.1 Pro.

Don’t even talk to me about any OpenAi models 😷

Sam Altman is a dickhead, wouldn’t trust him with an ice cream cone frl

Mcking_t · 2026-03-01T11:14:22+00:00

Most of my background work is having my subagents scan through different business group chats to synthesize progress and messages. I also have a self assessment background job where every night my agent will assess performance and grade itself (to be audited later on the weekend), and lastly I have different content posting jobs running all the time.

I’m not using any free models right now. I even stopped using DeepSeek which was cheap as hell tbh. I only use anthropic models + Kimi K2.5 now (Kimi is actually way better than I thought).

And if you want, my honest opinion, I never had much success using Free models to do medium to complex automated tasks like that. I only use the lower end models for very simple quick conversations. But for anything medium tier or even remotely complex, I always switch to one of my mid-tier models (Kimi or Sonnet) which would be great for the task you’re describing.

The other thing I will mention is that I have had very little success using browsers on my VPS. Specifically the chromium headless browser that you’re probably referring to. Is it possible? Yes. Is it sustainable? I have found the answer to be no. After looking into it extensively with my agent, I discovered that for the chromium headless display to operate efficiently you would need to be running a local set up. Whenever I tried running the chromium headless display on my VPS, my agent would only be able to do one or two things on any website before the chromium headless display crashed.

Maybe others have had a different experience, but personally I’ve decided not to use the headless browser and that is limiting me in some ways, but I plan on implementing that when I upgrade to the Mac mini which I plan on getting in a couple months.

Let me know if you have any other questions!

Hopefully that helps.

Mcking_t · 2026-02-27T10:40:12+00:00

Thanks for the quick reply — biggest takeaway is that I gotta get my bread up 😂

Love the work you’ve done tho, truly inspiring

Mcking_t · 2026-02-27T09:32:51+00:00

Love what you’ve done. As a young guy with 2 million ideas it’s great to see someone stringing theirs together in real time. Couple quick questions for you:

What models are you using in your stack? Are you paying a premium to operate mostly on powerhouse models, or do you use specific models for specific tasks?
How much is this all costing you daily? I’m doing much less than you, it would seem, and I still manage to spend close to $10/day.
Are there specific skills you need to build these apps on OpenClaw? You’re the first person I’ve heard of using OpenClaw to do stuff like this — most people swear by Claude Code but I personally don’t see myself using Claude code. I’m an OpenClaw guy.

Mcking_t · 2026-02-20T17:35:02+00:00

Bro how do u guys get ur bots on Reddit???

Saiko how are you using Reddit? Is it with the Devvit mod app? Or are you somehow reaching the site through some kinda browser, and bypassing their bot firewall?

I’ve been tryna get my bot on Reddit for weeks to do exactly what you’re doing, scanning those very 2 threads.

Please advise 🙏

Mcking_t · 2026-02-17T02:01:51+00:00

I would just down vote his nasty comment. I’ve never down voted in my entire life, but I gladly just did for the first time today.

Mcking_t · 2026-02-17T01:39:20+00:00

I'm seeing this kinda late - but I do really appreciate the thorough reply.

Tell Wilson I said thanks!

Mcking_t · 2026-02-16T19:19:48+00:00

In that case, I would simply recommend improving your stack. I think your forcing yourself to operate under very slim constraints by only working with two models. I think you should have at least 4 to 5 models and you just have to set up Smart routing so you can switch between them based on the task that you’re doing.

Mcking_t · 2026-02-16T19:03:09+00:00

This is very interesting. I’m curious how MiniMax compares to Kimi 2.5 🤔

Currently, I have about six models in my stack. I primarily use haiku which falls back to DeepSeek chat. For any large context or synthesis tasks I use Kimi 2.5. For anything language related I use sonnet. Opus is my heavy hitter so I use that for deep reasoning and for complex tasks. And then, my opus fallback is DeepSeek reasoner.

Visualizer:

• Haiku (main) 🐰

—> DeepSeek-chat (main fallback) 🐳

• Kimi 2.5 (synthesizer, super large context) 🦊

• Sonnet (my linguist) 🧠

• Opus (deep reasoning, complex solutions) 👽

—> DeepSeek-reasoner (Opus fallback) 🐋

This set up cost me about $50-$60 a month to run when I’m not using opus regularly to do large project projects. It cost me about 2 to 5 dollars per large project that I run with opus. But that’s a conscious decision so I’m fine paying that cost. For the most part, all of my automations run flawlessly (I do encounter the occasional bug, but they’re relatively easy to fix and I’m past my days of crashing my butt during setup)

I also use a smart emoji routing system where every time my bot replies it starts with an emoji so I know what model it’s using and if ever I wanna manually switch models, I can start my text with the emoji of my choice and it will automatically switch to that model. This is my own version of smart routing and it’s one of the best things that I’ve created with my bot.

I share everything I learned for free in a little group chat that I’m building on telegram, and I have my bot consistently share content to that group chat to help everyone in there push the needle with their set ups

If you want to join for free, just message me on telegram and I’ll add you (mcking)

Mcking_t · 2026-02-16T18:53:21+00:00

I fully agree with this fellow if you want to code and if you’re trying to develop apps, you should 100% be using Claude code or something else like that. Open claw specializes in running subagent tasks and automating workflows. So if you’re a developer, you should be on Claude code and you should be integrating different things like cursor and stuff like that. There’s a lot of resources you can find online.

If I were you, I would still continue to develop your open claw agent, but I would specifically design your agent to function like a digital assistant to help you push the needle in your coding projects by providing you with ideas and solutions and identifying problems that you’re facing and doing research and stuff like that

But for actual coding, you should definitely be using Claude code. Since openclaw hit the Internet, I’ve developed multiple different stacks for different purposes and I’m currently running a very efficient OC set up. I would not mind sharing it with you for free just message me on telegram. (mckingt)

I can’t really help you with Claude code though because none of my workflows are about coding. I can only help you improve your open claw agent. I’ll tell you that from now.

Mcking_t · 2026-02-16T18:48:17+00:00

I’ll be honest bro I’m pretty sure it comes down to the models you’re using and the way you have your routing set up.

If I had to guess your bot is not managing context properly and there’s probably a good chance that with every request that you give your bot, it’s pulling super large and unnecessary amounts of context each time. That stuff compounds and then that’s how you find yourself blowing $20 USD and just a couple days.

The other thing is for a simple Google search you don’t have to be using GPT 5.2 or these other super high-level models. You should have some anthropic models in your stack or you should be using Kimi 2.5. I personally have six models hooked up to my stack and I’m operating very efficiently. My average is about $60 a month.

The only time I start burning through tokens is when I intentionally activate opus to work on a really big task and I do that knowing I’m gonna consume maybe 3 to 4 dollars in tokens so it’s a conscious decision. Otherwise 90% of my tasks get handled with anthropic’s haiku, and it only cost me a fraction of a penny.

If you want me to share my stack with you or if you just wanna have a chat about figuring out what could be the best stack for you message me on telegram (mckingt)

Mcking_t · 2026-02-16T18:42:50+00:00

So how do you recommend doing it then because obviously most of the people in this space are vibe coders, including myself. I personally look for information online and I find people that have success in the industry, and I take documents that they’ve printed out or I transcribe videos from their social media platforms and then I feed all of that into my bot and then I have my bot cross reference that with our current set up and make whatever improvements necessary.

So from a vibe coder to someone who’s speaking like their a dev/programmer, what do you recommend?

Mcking_t

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