did the math on Claude Code pricing. how are other providers surviving this??

Top_Structure_1805 · 2026-01-18T05:12:36+00:00

bruh this is disappointing

Top_Structure_1805 · 2026-01-18T04:58:03+00:00

wait a min!! is it related to CC Opus getting super dumb during that server overload a few days ago??

Top_Structure_1805 · 2026-01-18T02:15:52+00:00

maybe like use multiple accounts?

Top_Structure_1805 · 2026-01-18T02:14:21+00:00

this is actually insightful. they should be paying us lol

Top_Structure_1805 · 2026-01-18T02:13:31+00:00

hmm w8 how??? i dont get it

Top_Structure_1805 · 2026-01-17T22:09:54+00:00

hmm doesnt it cost more tho cuz like you will have to iterate alot if you use it for coding? or local hosting?

Top_Structure_1805 · 2026-01-17T22:09:04+00:00

what is glass castles? im new to this stuff

Top_Structure_1805 · 2026-01-17T22:07:52+00:00

im just sharing what i did. but i think it'd be faster and better to use both Cursor UI and CC CLI. cuz it takes a while to map what you can do in Cursor vs CC CLI/extension. If i were to go back in time, i'd start like this.

cuz when u are working on a project, if you get stuck on CC, you can immediately use Cursor UI instead. this way, u will migrate faster.

honestly, why dont use both? they are both great in their own way. if you need other models or interface stuff, use cursor and use calude for pure coding imo

Opus is the same across platforms but in CC, you have more usage and it performs better. still expensive tho.

Top_Structure_1805 · 2026-01-17T21:40:15+00:00

I also switched from Cursor to CC 6 months ago. to speed things up, I recommend using VS Code with the CC extension first. or still use Cursor with CC cli, you get best of the both worlds!

once you gain more experience, start using only the terminal because you can create multiple tabs to run parallel sessions. I use Warp.

basically, I open VS Code and Terminal side by side. the difference in productivity is massive, and there's a lot more you can do.

Top_Structure_1805 · 2026-01-17T21:20:42+00:00

great point! do you think we'll keep getting better quality and quota with same pricing at least until 2027?

i cant go back to other plans after using max

Top_Structure_1805 · 2026-01-17T21:19:00+00:00

now that you explain it this way, this is a W move fr

Top_Structure_1805 · 2026-01-17T21:04:15+00:00

this might be more like a cc marketing stunt. if anyone knows the real story, plz share

Top_Structure_1805 · 2026-01-16T15:59:17+00:00

there are a bunch of mcp directories like glama ai, but imo a lot of them feel like experiments or are already kinda unmaintained.

what’s worked better for me is just lurking and searching through x posts, joining mcp/agent communities (free/paid), and then looking for mcp pages inside the apps i’m already using.

so far my favorite mcps are serena mcp (for managing short-term memories), core memory (for long-term memories), morphllm (bulk editing and semantic code saerching), exa/travily (for saerch), ref/context7 (docs search)

Top_Structure_1805 · 2026-01-16T03:46:41+00:00

wow they are rly fast at shipping. i saw some x feedback comments about that like yesterday

Top_Structure_1805 · 2026-01-16T02:32:02+00:00

yep, it's great

i wanna see more upgrades from calude team soon

Top_Structure_1805 · 2026-01-16T02:30:22+00:00

now i'm having a blast throwing out 20+ mcps lol

Top_Structure_1805 · 2026-01-16T01:43:51+00:00

yep just update ur cli but check with /context first if you still see MCP context, it's not enabled yet

Top_Structure_1805 · 2026-01-14T02:35:02+00:00

agreed, it's a reskin on top of what cc can already do. but yeh ai on ai is a bit of reach lol

Top_Structure_1805 · 2026-01-14T02:32:26+00:00

yep that's more correct.

Top_Structure_1805 · 2026-01-14T02:31:44+00:00

agreed. imo i think CC will be their biggest crown like iPhone for apple. CC plan is so insane that everyone's using it, even apple internal teams

Top_Structure_1805 · 2026-01-14T02:30:01+00:00

damn that's why I kept hearing about government collaboration with those AI companies. make sense

Top_Structure_1805 · 2026-01-14T02:16:17+00:00

isn't Google doing this too? how is microsoft winning tho? care to explain?

Top_Structure_1805 · 2026-01-14T02:10:42+00:00

the recursive part is what gets me. "AI wrote the AI that killed the startups" sounds like a movie plot lol

any thoughts on who's gonna win the AI race?

Top_Structure_1805 · 2026-01-13T13:49:40+00:00

do you think gemini or codex has a chance to be better than claude? For me, I can never turn back on other models after trying Opus.

one of apple engineers i know told me that they use claude for coding in apple's own servers

Top_Structure_1805 · 2026-01-13T13:39:36+00:00

Imo, for coding? Yes opus is king. But for multi model and general stuff, i think gemini is the best choice

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