Claude at times feels lobotomized compared to where it was a few months ago with 4.6. I think Anthropic was (is still?) struggling with their infrastructure and

Claude at times feels lobotomized compared to where it was a few months ago with 4.6. I think Anthropic was (is still?) struggling with their infrastructure and hasn't felt as good for me anecdotally for a few months. Significantly enough that I've cancelled (max 20x). Codex 5.5 extra high currently feels a good amount smarter than either 4.6 or 4.7 Opus. I only just started using it about a week ago, so maybe that's a recent development and then OpenAI will eventually lobotomize their model or throttle etc. What I dislike about frontier models is how opaque and incentivized the businesses are about tweaking their services. Anthropic definitely does some shady throttling. I have zero trust for Altman and he's BS AGI claims. And Google makes it non-obvious that you can't turn Gemini training off on even their highest tier personal plan. There's a lot of shady and dishonest behaviour, probably because they are all overhyped and heavily subsidized to win the race. I don't mind at all paying more than I currently am for these services, but I don't trust any of these frontier model companies, and so I'm cheering for open models. Right now I'm using Codex for planning and DeepSeek V4 Flash [1m] for implementation. It's quite fast. Quite possible / likely that OpenAI will make significant changes that kill this workflow for w/e reason... at which point I will probably move to full open weight models.