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I pay a Max subscription since a long time, I like their model but I hate their tools:

- Claude Desktop looks like a demo app. It's slow to use and so far behind the Codex app that it's embarassing.

- Claude Code is buggy has hell and I think I've never used a CLI tool that consume so much memory and CPU. Let's not talk about the feature parity with other agents.

- Claude Agent SDK is poorly documented, half finished, and is just thin wrapper around a CLI tool…

Oh and none of this is open source, so I can do nothing about it.

My only option to stay with their model is to build my own tool. And now I discover that using my subscription with the Agent SDK is against the term of use?

I'm not going to pay 500 USD of API credits every months, no way. I have to move to a different provider.

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I agree that Claude Code is buggy as hell, but:

> Let's not talk about the feature parity with other agents.

What do you mean feature parity with other agents? It seems to me that other CLI agents are quite far from Claude Code in this regard.

Which other CLI agents are that? Because I've found OpenCode to be A LOT better than Claude-Code.

Whats better with opencode? Never tried it. I like that claude code has double escape, shift + tab, team of agents

I haven't used opencode but pi agent runs rings around claude code. Never eats tons of CPU on big outputs, no flickering, open source, tree-based context instead of claude's linear context, easy to toggle collapsing/expanding tool outputs, built for extension with runtime reloading of extensions and skills, etc. You can easily build your own amp-code like handoff mechanism, customize the UI (i see models' edit diffs syntax-highlighted with delta, and just added a keybind to list session-edited files + files from git status in fzf), etc.

Meanwhile with Claude Code I've had to get claude to decompile the editor (extract JS from the bun executable) _twice_ to diagnose weird things like why some documented config flags were not taking effect.

Opus is great - but I'd rather use a different model than be forced back into Claude Code.

The great force of claude code is that you can use claude sub, you can’t with pi unfortunately

I regret ever promoting that Claude Code crap. I remember when it was nothing but glowing reviews everywhere. Honestly AI companies should stick to what they are good at: direct API interface to powerful models.

We are heading toward a $1000/month model just to use LLMs in the cloud.

They still have that. If that's all you wanted then what are you complaining about

>I'm not going to pay 500 USD of API credits every months, no way. I have to move to a different provider

It's funny, you are probably in the cohort that made Antropic have to pursue this type of decision so aggressively.

I had a Claude code instance using 55 GB of RAM yesterday.

I got so tired of cursor that I started writing down every bug I encountered. The list is currently at 30 entries, some of them major bugs such as pressing "apply" on changes not actually applying changes or models getting stuck in infinite loops and burning 50 million tokens.

I tried to have Cursor change a list of US States and Provinces from a list to a dictionary and it did, but it also randomly deleted 3 states.

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