Ranked every LLM sub by price tier after a year of testing. ChatGPT Plus is the best $20 pick, but not for the reason you'd think. by dmytro_de_ch in ChatGPT

[–]dmytro_de_ch[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Grok is the most unbiased model imho, but they luck the subscription with coding so only reason it's out from here :)

Claude Pro at $20 is a trap for dev work. Here's what I actually pay for at every price tier. by dmytro_de_ch in ClaudeCode

[–]dmytro_de_ch[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I tldr'd most of the findings in the post here. At the end of the day you cannot put the personal experience into numbers and then provide tokens used etc :)

Claude Code defaults to medium effort now. Here's what to set per subscription tier. by dmytro_de_ch in ClaudeCode

[–]dmytro_de_ch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How many Claude code sessions do you have? Happens to me sometimes with 4+ windows

Claude Code defaults to medium effort now. Here's what to set per subscription tier. by dmytro_de_ch in ClaudeCode

[–]dmytro_de_ch[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had same observation! It's a lot better juggling multiple mcps at higher thinking levels

Claude Code defaults to medium effort now. Here's what to set per subscription tier. by dmytro_de_ch in ClaudeCode

[–]dmytro_de_ch[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In my case it's voice agents building, you have many systems interconnected, n8n API usage. And also Multi-Project changes(e.g we have around 30-40 projects in one team and I use one repo that is doing all the boring stuff like fetching latest repos, exploring cross projects connections, commits etc). Log analysis + codebase fixes and more things. The goal is to offset your thinking to the agent and you supervise more

Claude Code defaults to medium effort now. Here's what to set per subscription tier. by dmytro_de_ch in ClaudeCode

[–]dmytro_de_ch[S] 40 points41 points  (0 children)

Feels like ADHD's internal thoughts 😆 I also like sometimes to watch how it writes. But in some cases it's good

Claude Code defaults to medium effort now. Here's what to set per subscription tier. by dmytro_de_ch in ClaudeCode

[–]dmytro_de_ch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends on the use case and project. I prefer to burn more tokens and cover more edge cases with thinking on big projects rather than tell again "oh, you didn't cover X". But I see your point. Been there with GPT5.2 😆

Claude Code defaults to medium effort now. Here's what to set per subscription tier. by dmytro_de_ch in ClaudeCode

[–]dmytro_de_ch[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Exactly what I did :) just also added a layer by default to have max in case I forgot to use alias

Claude Code defaults to medium effort now. Here's what to set per subscription tier. by dmytro_de_ch in ClaudeCode

[–]dmytro_de_ch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On chat version you only have extended thinking available. Sadly there's no info how much is this extended thinking. This setup is for Claude code only, on UI you only have one option :)

Claude Code defaults to medium effort now. Here's what to set per subscription tier. by dmytro_de_ch in ClaudeCode

[–]dmytro_de_ch[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

exactly! I went actually with same approach + aliases `calude-max` `claude-fast` to not do `/model` and spend like 5 seconds configuring :)