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Feels about right.

I've launched an internal demo of Claude Code and Deepseek on the same day and we burned through our monthly allowance for Claude in just over a week, with more than a half of that budget being spent in one day. With DS people are unable to go through that same amount of money in a month, not even close.

With that Claude feels like an expensive toy, while DS is a shovel, purely because developers do not feel like they are eating into a precious resource while using it. Also it does not feel like there is much of a difference in capability between Claude and DS-pro. DS-pro and flash do feel like sonnet/opus and haiku, but flash is still very-very capable.

I rage canceled Claude today.

After 2 weeks of Claude getting progressively worse and worse, today was the final straw.

I don't care if they have a phone app. The model is COMPLETE garbage after you subscribe long enough and they think they've "got you".

I can't code on my phone if the model literally moves in the wrong direction and does the opposite of what I tell it to. If I wanted to make my code worse, I'd just randomly commit garbage. I don't need a mobile app for that.

I've seen a lot of this sentiment over the previous six months from people on reddit. I have yet to experience this myself as a developer with over 20 years of experience.
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All these tools have almost feature parity. The GitHub cli allows remote sessions and can run anthropic models anyway
Considered Gemini?
Gemini got a big reduction in usage limits this week. There was backlash and they added 3x usage for Antigravity a day later but I haven't really tried it out to get a feel for it yet.
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Google has burnt all of its goodwill in dev communities so no, I don't think Gemini is worth consideration.