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Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

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  1. throwaway2027 · · focus · HN ↗
    I'm starting to explore alternative options because Claude has become an awful value proposition. Any suggestions?
    1. fidotron · · focus · HN ↗
      I turned off Anthropic properly and switched all of that over to OpenAI yesterday. (I use other models for other things too, especially DeepSeek in Pi).

      Honestly aside from the voice it uses you wouldn't notice a difference. Switching costs are low, vote with your wallet.

      1. georgeburdell · · focus · HN ↗
        So you voted for Kodos instead of Kang [1]. Local models are the way out of the rug pulling

        [1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=BUAnyVAanac&amp;ra=m" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=BUAnyVAanac&amp;ra=m

        1. fidotron · · focus · HN ↗
          I don&#x27;t actually disagree, and advocate that for now the thing to do is use both.

          You need to use frontier models to understand where the puck is going, but also to use local ones for anything remotely sensitive.

      2. KronisLV · · focus · HN ↗
        &gt; I turned off Anthropic properly and switched all of that over to OpenAI yesterday.

        Same, just a while longer ago.

        I much prefer how OpenAI models write to Anthropic&#x27;s, will probably revisit Anthropic in a generation or two. Context size is more limited, but no critical forgetfulness due to compaction so far, though I also like having plan files around both for future reference and improving chances of success at long form work.

        Also tried out Kimi K3, was nice but slow (and apparently routed some requests to Claude anyways), GLM 5.3 was faster and still pretty good but the token allowances were kinda limited.

      3. rfgplk · · focus · HN ↗
        OpenAI is a better value proposition too because they give you effectively infinite image generation + chat usage, which is separate from work&#x2F;codex.
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