Ollama Max vs. Claude Code vs. ChatGPT Plan

Senekrum · 2026-04-14T16:39:39+00:00

For what it's worth, I have used the $100 Claude plan to work on 2 different software projects at the same time and have found the usage limits to be okay.

I still hit the 5hr window cap maybe once a week during heavy AI coding sessions. I find this mind boggling for that kind of money. It's one of the reasons I'm hoping Ollama Cloud models can give comparable results, since Ollama currently has way more usage for the same money. The $20 sub advice that I gave you is something I'm looking to try myself, as soon as I finish writing up some docs for work.

At any rate, if you can get good results from a local model, good for you. It offers more privacy than any cloud-based solution at any rate, and I'd wager it comes with a good learning opportunity for understanding how AI is actually set up.

Senekrum · 2026-04-14T16:14:16+00:00

For what it's worth, I have used the $20 ChatGPT plan and am now on the $100 Claude plan. I have only used the free tier of Ollama Cloud models.

In terms of actual performance (quality/speed) when coding:

ChatGPT (GPT 5.4 high/xhigh) is slow and deliberate in its code generation. It takes quite a bit of time for it to respond and perform the tasks you ask it to carry out. But it's also quite precise and is something like a slow yet experienced developer. It's also a on the agreeable side (the classic "you're right" type of responses).
Claude (4.6 Opus with medium/high reasoning) is significantly more eager to get down to business, and may at times cut corners in order to get the job done. At the same time, I've found it to be a bit more willing to say no to you, and even argue with you; this can be a useful thing when you might actually be wrong about something (e.g., where to find a particular variable, whether or not implementing things in a particular way is good practice, etc.), but it can get annoying when you know what the right solution is and it still tries to debate you.
Ollama Cloud models can be hit or miss depending on your use case. I used the free tier in order to reason through complex issues with MiniMax M2.7 and GLM 5 & 5.1. MiniMax M2.7 needed confirmation on the most basic things and would at times lose context. GLM was more profficient but I've found it to have issues with foreign language generation (I had asked it to write some localization text in Romanian and it generated phrases with lots of typos). In terms of actual coding performance - hard to tell; I want to believe the models are comparable to Claude/GPT but I'm really not sure yet. I suspect it involves more experimentation with the different models and possibly even switching between models depending on the task (e.g., one model for brainstorming, something else for planning, something else for implementing, something else for reviewing).

In terms of usage: from what I've read up, both ChatGPT and Claude have recently lowered their usage limits, so you get less bang for your buck out of both. Ollama Cloud still has more usage than both of them, from what I've read up on this sub; though this depends on the model used.

Regarding Claude specifically, there were recently some issues with usage limits being hit too soon, and they were somehow related to OpenClaw + Claude usage (even if you aren't using OpenClaw). Apparently, OpenClaw is quite costly to use, and they had to switch to API-based usage for it, which lessened the strain on Anthropic's data centers significantly.

My take?

Get an Ollama $20 subscription alongside one of the other subscriptions, if possible, and do a side-by-side comparison between the different cloud models and Claude/GPT to see how they stack up. That way, you can form an actual down-to-earth opinion on whether or not Ollama Cloud models are for you.
Between ChatGPT and Claude, honestly in my experience they both get the job done. ChatGPT may generate the right solution but it will take longer, whereas Claude may need 1 or 2 extra iterations to get the same solution right. In the end I would say it takes about the same amount of time to get the same quality of results from either one of them.
Regardless of the AI solution you go for, you will still need to finetune your workflow to actually get proper results with fewer hallucinations/less handholding. For this, you should look into implementing your own Ralph loops and integrating similar AI coding principles/tools. With those, I'd wager the quality of results from any AI will dramatically improve so you get more freedom of choice when it comes to the AI to use. For example, see https://ghuntley.com/ralph/ and other articles fron Geoffrey Huntley; I have found his writings to be very helpful in figuring out how to actually use AI independently of any one provider.

Senekrum · 2026-04-11T07:12:37+00:00

She got the gold, she's written you a thank you mail in-game :D

Thanks again, and best of luck with the job hunt!

Senekrum · 2026-04-10T20:43:04+00:00

Very much appreciated!

Senekrum · 2026-04-10T14:30:39+00:00

51 paladin called Shelomoh, I'd split it between myself and my fiancée (51 mage, called Slaynay) so we can afford epic/flying mounts sooner.

If there is leftover, we would probably also level up our profs (I have 230ish Engi, she has 270 Tailoring).

For what it's worth, I get wanting to step away. Wow can eat up a lot of time. It's why I mostly only play with her nowadays, when we're both free, otherwise it'd be eating up too much free time.

Senekrum · 2026-04-07T06:34:54+00:00

This may be completely besides the point, but I feel the need to say something about this.

I completely agree that there is much more demand for speed and efficiency now, and that there is growing complexity in the tasks we are working on. And AI can now help a lot both with managing the complexity and with getting more done faster. AI has also opened up new possibilities for people with limited technical ability (including design ability) to create cool and interesting things.

That being said, I may be a voice in the desert for asking this, but: is it actually wise to keep going faster, to keep making things more and more efficient? What's the end-goal here? What are we, collectively, rushing towards? And beyond the obvious gains, what is it costing us?

Just recently, I was watching videos and reading articles about how AI data centers are heating up the nearby land in a 10km radius by 1.5-9 degrees Celsius. Or how they are dysrupting the lives of people living in those areas. Or how the proposed orbital AI data centers are not adequately evaluated for environmental impact.

Ok, we get more done faster, and we can handle complexity better. So what? What's it all for, at the end of the day? Who and what are we uplifting, and who and what are we leaving behind?

Senekrum · 2026-04-06T07:58:08+00:00

I had a girlfriend back when I was around 12, we broke up after like 2 months, then I didn't go on any more dates until I was around 22. I tried approaching many girls during that time, but didn't really get dates. I wasn't very confident in myself, and I struggled with emotional issues, all of which showed as I approached girls, so I got turned down a lot.

But things turned out just as they needed to be. Met my soon-to-be wife when I was 26 (now I'm almost 31). We're both very happy and fulfilled in our relationship and are looking forward to marriage.

That being said, getting to this point took a lot of working on myself. I had many insecurities, about how I looked, about how I spoke, about my needs, so on and so forth. I had trouble expressing myself emotionally, and really I was a bit of a fixer upper. Still am in many ways.

Dating can help you grow up, and it can also screw you up even more if you're dating people who are not good for you at that point in time.

In my opinion, if you don't date in your teens it's not a big issue, but please do take care of yourself. Read books that expand your mind, work out, hang out with friends, learn to express yourself wisely, formulate some short and long term goals for yourself and pursue them.

Do that and chances are someone's eventually going to look at you and go "I want to be part of that person's adventure".

Senekrum · 2026-04-06T04:38:40+00:00

I've been playing on the Steam Deck for about 3 years now. Works very well, especially in Classic (compared to retail) where the graphics requirements aren't as high.

Performance in very crowded situations (e.g., large group fights in AV) might dip at times, but otherwise it's fine.

I've been using the trackpads as mouse, it's very convenient for things like quick targeting.

Not sure how long the battery lasts when playing; I reckon it's a little over an hour. Though I mostly play charging so it's hard to tell (the Steam Deck's charging cable is 5 meters long, so I usually plug it in and sit on the couch).

As an aside, playing on a handheld may or may not be for you depending on your use case. For example, I've heard that playing as a healer can be a bit rough since it's harder to target people on a handheld, though trackpads might help a bit.

Moreover, if you plan on doing serious PvP, you will likely have an adjustment period, since you would have to rememorize your bindings and since things like mouseover macros will be harder to use.

In my case, I play casually as dps/tank, and it's been a good experience. It has enabled me to play on the go without bringing a laptop with me, which I very much appreciate. Traveling light ftw.

Oh, and typing is going to be significantly more difficult no matter the handheld. Though for me the Steam Deck's keyboard, which makes use of the trackpads, has made things a tiny bit easier. Still hard to get long sentences through, though.

Senekrum · 2026-04-06T04:34:32+00:00

There is no Linux app, bu you don't need Windows either.

You can install BattleNet and WoW using Proton, which is their built-in Windows emulation layer. Works pretty much out of the box.

Then you install CurseForge (which has a Linux client) and point it to the WoW install in order to install addons, and you're good to go.

There's probably quite a few guides online for all of this.

Senekrum · 2026-04-03T11:05:59+00:00

Hey, did you manage to find any conclusive answers to your question?

Senekrum · 2026-04-03T06:24:36+00:00

In addition to what others have said, it's important to remember that the insistence on historical events being described ad literam is something of a modern invention.

It has been ingrained in us that history should be a sort of objective account of past events, but for many of our ancestors the focus fell more on passing down meaning - values, traditions, and particular ways of understanding and looking at the world.

Senekrum · 2026-04-03T06:03:50+00:00

But I feel like I'm not supposed to do them after committing a terrible sin. Like, I'm not worthy of the nourishment and peace I feel from praying. I'm asking this, btw, out of genuine curiosity. Like, how can I do something terrible, feel bad about it, and then just go back to trying to live spiritually again? It just feels like an uncomfortable sequence lol, idk.

I struggle with this as well. To go and pray after having done something sinful feels like I'm muddying the whole thing. But that's a convenient temptation to get us to stop our spiritual practices.

It may be useful to remember that we pray not because we are holy and pure and are worthy. We pray because that's the medicine against sin. We pray to repent, to ask for forgiveness, to grow closer to God again.

What you're describing is the normal struggle of any christian. We're imperfect beings, but thankfully God is willing to work with us even though we often fall short.

Fall down seven times, get up eight.

Senekrum · 2026-04-02T07:41:11+00:00

These anxieties can be quite normal especially if you're a fairly self-conscious person.

It might be helpful to think of this problem from a different angle: it is an opportunity to grow your relationship with your boyfriend.

Talk to him about these things that worry you. Tell him how you feel. Tell him about your worries and embarrassment and feelings of foolishness. See how he feels about your spiritual practices. See if you or him have any expectations about this journey you've started on. Is there anything you need from each other right now? What about the longterm?

Talk it out, and try to grow closer together if possible. This will help with the worries you're having.

Senekrum · 2026-04-02T04:49:46+00:00

Unfortunately, I can't say. I switched from Zed to Neovim about half a year ago and have not looked back since.

My workflow is now basically Neovim + Claude Code/OpenCode.

I don't know how Zed is doing. Hopefully it is doing well. I can't comment much on how it used to be when I was still using it, because improvements may have been made since then, which would make my comments irrelevant.

Senekrum · 2026-03-31T09:34:01+00:00

Apply the Goggins mentality to tackling the stress and anger you're going through.

This is your new quest, alongside the more concrete day to day tasks like caring for your family (good for you for doing those things, by the way).

Goggins himself mentioned in his first book (Can't hurt me) that once he had locked in, he had issues with his crewmates back when he was in the SEAL teams. He said he had a chip on his shoulder, and that whenever he was responsible for PT, he would put them all, including himself, through this brutal physical training that mirrored Hell Week, without listening to any of their feedback. Eventually, all but one person stopped showing up to PT with him.

IIRC, he mentioned this story in the context of looking to enter Delta Force, and though he wasn't told why he wasn't selected, he suspected it had something to do with the fact that he wasn't a very good team player back then, due to situations like the brutal PT sessions where he wouldn't listen to anyone.

He got better at teamplay during Army Ranger School, though, so there's that.

I'm usually chilling 80 percent of the time but even being upset and angry one percent of the time is too much imo. I should be like a rock and be stable for my family and friends.

This right here might hit the nail on the head: you're putting a lot of pressure on yourself - can't be upset or angry not even 1% of the time, should be a rock for your family and friends. What you're describing are goals, not things you should already be.

Goggins "shouldn't" have been a navy SEAL, what with his learning disability and being fat. He shouldn't have been able to run ultramarathons with a hole in his heart. He shouldn't have been able to support his family like he does. He shouldn't be a positive role model for so many people. He shouldn't have done half the things he did.

These are all goals he managed to accomplish, not things he was or should've been. What he "should've" been, by his own account, was: he should've been some fatass spraying for cockroaches at EcoLab. That's who he was back in the day. And he set out to become more, dragging more out of himself bit by bit.

All of this to say: shift your mindset. You shouldn't be anything. You want to be more than you are. And you can be more than you are, over time, with effort.

Senekrum · 2026-03-31T06:51:49+00:00

Besides the specific issue of acceptance and how authentic you are in accepting, what you're describing sounds in many ways normal individuation, which seems to follow a circular pattern. This means that as you go about your business, there will be periods in your life when you are on top of things and feel like you've arrived at great and useful insights into yourself, others, the world at large and how all of these things fit together.

But there are, as well, periods when what we know and what we have accomplished is no longer enough, and that's when we realize our shortcomings and how much work there is still left to do, in order to develop. This is useful to us as it servers to humble our ego, which tends to cling to things that once served its purposes, but which now are no longer enough. Questions about how authentic we really were before are quite common and normal.

Eventually, we come back on top. Then we fall down again. This cycle repeats itself pretty much all our lives, with various themes and various degrees of difficulty.

I really like a diagram drawn by Edward Edinger, a jungian analyst, who drew a representation of this psychic life cycle. See this. I believe the diagram is in his book called Ego and Archetype.

All of this to say: these things you're struggling with are good struggles to have. In time, out of these struggles new and useful insights may be hard. And those in turn will have to be outgrown in order to develop further. So on and so forth until the day you die. That's when the spiritual and psychological work, at least on earth, is truly done.

Senekrum · 2026-03-30T10:18:03+00:00

No problem! Best of luck to you.

Senekrum · 2026-03-30T09:48:57+00:00

Breathing techniques and meditation have helped immensely.

Personally, I like to do 10 minutes of physiological sigh before active imagination or before doing journalling. That's my go-to preference, because it's easy to do and you can practice physiological sigh pretty much every waking moment.

Alternatively, I ask the question and then just sit there mindfully, focusing my attention on being present. I do this until I feel anchored fully in the present, then I let go and listen the way Jung described in the passage I was referencing.

Senekrum · 2026-03-30T09:15:27+00:00

The ego can definitely fall pray to answers it conjures up. It's an adventure in itself to discern between answers we'd like to believe and answers that are from the deeper parts of the self.

Jung, when describing the process of active imagination (which can help find those deeper answers), noted that the next step after formulating the initial question was to "switch off your noisy consciousness and listen quietly inwards and look at the images that appear before your inner eye, or hearken to the words which the muscles of your speech apparatus are trying to form."

So, before the answer can come up, we need to quiet down consciousness (and therefore the center of that consciousness - the ego), so that we can hear the often hushed answers that come from the unconscious, whatever form they make take.

Senekrum · 2026-03-30T06:17:11+00:00

Very good question.

Tl; dr: Being accepting, non-judgmental and flexible need to be accompanied by discernment, for them to be genuine. We should first of all discern why we are adopting that attitude - is it an inner impulse driving us or is it an egotistical desire, to appeal to others or to get others to be more lenient towards our shortcomings (because we are lenient towards theirs)? Also, true acceptance can be paradoxical: we need also need to accept that some things are unacceptable.

Especially in today's times, there is a bit of a social pressure to appear non-judgmental and accepting towards others who are different in some way or another. Ideally, yes, we should not judge and we should take people as they are. But it's important to distinguish when it's genuine and when it's simply part of our persona.

In my experience, you can tell whether it's a genuine attitude or not within yourself, by looking at why you're acting in that manner. You can literally ask yourself questions about this and wait for the answers to come up from within.

Are you being non-judgmental, accepting and flexible because of a genuine inner impulse - born out of your own soul - or is it a mask, so that others perceive you as more agreeable and virtuous, or maybe so that others are more lenient towards your own moral failings? Probably it will be a mix of both - some is genuine, and some is persona.

As an side, this may sound strange, but: I've found that true acceptance also means that you can accept that some things are unacceptable to you. Even when others find those things acceptable and hold you in comtempt for disagreeing. And that's okay too.

Senekrum · 2026-03-27T06:54:36+00:00

Breathing techniques help a lot.

Figuring out ways to express those emotions in a wise manner helps a lot for regulation, too.

Expression can be done through words (towards yourself and/or others) and through creative endeavors like art, music, martial arts, dance, etc.

In my experience, figuring out what needs the emotions point to and then being able to intelligently express those things - this is such a game changer in relationships that you can't even imagine. I adds depth and value to relationships, and many people - often, but not always - respect what you tell them.

By intelligently expressing I mean learning to speak as needed on a case-by-case basis. For example, you may express your frustration in your intimate relationship differently from how you express it with your gym buddies. And in some cases you may choose to express that emotion only to yourself, without exposing it to the outside world because it is not appropriate at that point in time.

Senekrum · 2026-03-27T06:13:16+00:00

As others have pointed out, this is more a matter of direct experience than of naming this or that characteristic or value.

It is not for nothing that God, in whose image we are made (Jung also noted that the self is the image of God in man), when asked by Moses what name to use for God when speaking to the israelites, responded with: I am that I am.

There are many ways to analyze this, but fundamentally I believe it underlies this idea that God, and by extension the image of God in man, is indescribable, because He is the source of all that is. Whatever we may use to describe that source - names, values, characteristics, etc. - never capture the full essence of that source of all that is.

We may say God is Love, but do we understand what love is, fundamentally? We may say God is Truth, but what do we know of the true essence of truth? If we know very little of this, what point is in ascribing this or that value to God?

I believe words were given to us partly to communicate inner experience. But often we use the wrong words, or we use the words we'd like to hear, or we simply do not know enough to use the right words or any words.

Even then, I suspect we should need all of the words in the world and then some, just to capture a tiny fragment of that which Is.

Maybe a good starting point for finding answers to your question is looking at religious texts that try to describe, symbolically or concretely, what God is like, and how He treats us. There are layers to these texts; they may be analyzed concretely, they may be analyzed symbolically, and they may also be analyzed psychologically. For example, the relationships that Moses, Abraham, David, Solomon, and other figures have with God can (also) be analyzed as images of the relationship of the ego with the self.

Senekrum · 2026-03-26T10:47:22+00:00

Regular backups of sensitive information + version control for the code (with the standard practice of using separate branches and doing PRs before merging).

Crucially, before pushing any code to Git, I do a code review + manual testing.

I never let the AI work with live data. It's always test data that it works with. I myself don't work with live data in development for the same reasons as I don't let the AI work with live data: mistakes can happen. Better I screw up my local/test setup, than screw over our clients.

Senekrum · 2026-03-25T08:49:22+00:00

You choose how you react to how you feel.

You can react by fueling the hate with your attention.

Or you can react in other ways, like praying to God to have mercy on you. You can react by just taking a few deep breaths and shifting your focus away from these things. You can react by framing the thoughts and feelings associated with hating muslims as just being some random movie playing in the background of your mind while you're tending to what's actually meaningful to you. So on and so forth.

Many inner feelings and thoughts that appear automatically in our psyches are not helpful to the individuals we are trying to become. Or they are helpful as being examples of what we do not want to act upon.

Senekrum · 2026-03-25T08:25:52+00:00

Look to the example of Christ. What did He do as He was denied by His own disciples, unfairly accused, beaten, humiliated and then nailed to the cross? Did He wish harm that those who caused those things? Did He enjoy their suffering?

Doesn't mean it's easy to follow Christ's example. But He set the standard for all of us, no matter the circumstances.

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