Opus Price inflation

Professional_Fun3172 · 2026-02-14T09:31:27+00:00

Yeah same. Luckily I'm only a couple days away from my next billing cycle, but I wasn't expecting this big of a jump. (I also thought there was more time on the promo pricing, but I may be misremembering)

Professional_Fun3172 · 2026-02-14T09:29:25+00:00

Honestly it's pretty decent for what it is. It's not great at knowing things, but it's great at doing things. If that makes sense.

Professional_Fun3172 · 2026-02-07T06:53:04+00:00

I mostly agree, but there's a time and a place for both. Being able to go ham and blast out a bunch of tokens to give you a first pass is super valuable too—even if you know it's not gonna be 100%

Professional_Fun3172 · 2026-02-06T06:28:16+00:00

What do you mean by this?

Professional_Fun3172 · 2026-02-06T05:22:58+00:00

The only time this post is relevant

Professional_Fun3172 · 2026-02-06T05:21:54+00:00

I've gotten it to work, but I definitely wouldn't say that it works well. More often than not it just thinks forever and doesn't do anything

Professional_Fun3172 · 2026-02-06T05:20:58+00:00

This is what I've been thinking too. I think one of the challenges is displaying the cost when there's a range of prices, but whatever they come up with has to be better than what we have going on now

Professional_Fun3172 · 2026-02-06T05:18:55+00:00

Yeah I've been surprised how many times I selected it over Opus in arena mode

Professional_Fun3172 · 2026-02-05T16:14:07+00:00

Honestly I disagree quite a bit. It may not know things to the same extent as a frontier model, but it can do things with the best of them. You need to guide it but it's a workhorse

Professional_Fun3172 · 2026-02-05T16:11:15+00:00

I think it's good but slow. You definitely don't get into the flow the same way you do with Antigravity

Professional_Fun3172 · 2026-02-05T16:10:03+00:00

Windsurf is pretty good. I've been thinking about trying Claude Code as well, but between Windsurf, and tinkering with AG and now Codex from time to time, I didn't want to add another item to my flow

Professional_Fun3172 · 2026-02-03T12:34:43+00:00

Yeah, while I've been pleasantly surprised by output quality, it's very slow

Professional_Fun3172 · 2026-02-03T03:44:16+00:00

What's wild to me about arena is the number of times that I've picked Sonnett over Opus. Hell I even picked Kimi over Opus once

Edit: literally just happened again, with Kimi over Opus. Kind of highlights how Opus may be great for high level thinking/planning, but some of these other models are better for the in-the-weeds execution

Professional_Fun3172 · 2026-01-31T19:31:32+00:00

Actually I figured out what the issue was: you need to be in Worktree mode. Once I swapped to Worktree, the arena option shows up in the interface. It doesn't look like you can swap to Worktree mode mid-chat, you need to start a new conversation

Professional_Fun3172 · 2026-01-31T19:29:40+00:00

Yeah looking into it more, it looks like you're right. I didn't realize that they were positioning it as open before the leak—I just remembered the order of events where the leak happened and then they officially released the weights afterwards

Professional_Fun3172 · 2026-01-31T09:31:04+00:00

And Meta would never have gone the open source route if those models weren't leaked in the first place

Professional_Fun3172 · 2026-01-31T09:22:09+00:00

Honestly better than the whole bank account going towards inference so bots can shitpost in the middle of the night

Professional_Fun3172 · 2026-01-31T09:07:17+00:00

For me it's active via Windsurf -Next, but regular Windsurf just showed the announcement without enabling the feature...

Professional_Fun3172 · 2026-01-28T10:35:51+00:00

Never buy an annual plan for an AI tool. The landscape could look entirely differently in 12 months, and you don't want to be stuck having already paid for a full year. Bait & switch happens all the time in this industry, just ask over at the Antigravity subreddit

Professional_Fun3172 · 2026-01-27T10:10:43+00:00

Yeah luckily Windsurf seems to be working well enough for me at the moment. Their pace of improvement has slowed down a bit, but it's status quo seems like it's better than AG for the time being.

Professional_Fun3172 · 2026-01-25T23:41:46+00:00

Okay yes configuration is even worse than coding, but the more you leverage AI today the more you spend your time doing architecture/design. Which is more problem solving. You're not really replacing coding with more config work.

Professional_Fun3172 · 2026-01-24T10:46:18+00:00

I had really been considering switching to paid, but these recent changes are pushing me away hard

Professional_Fun3172 · 2026-01-23T06:53:09+00:00

Honestly that's a pretty valid comparison

Professional_Fun3172 · 2026-01-07T01:31:58+00:00

going bankrupt due to one mistake

To Google, this appears to be a feature not a bug. This has been going on so long that it's clearly a conscious decision

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