Claude Opus is already close to unusable for me. On the standard plan, the usage limits are so low that I can’t do almost anything agentic meaningful with it.
Sure, it does last a lot more when asking simple questions about the repo and doing simple surgical fixes. But as soon as I start doing bigger tasks that need plans written, it just exhausts the limits too fast (and unlike codex, if it’s in a middle of a task, Claude actually stops, while codex, even after hitting the limits, finishes the present task).
Codex is better, but still, getting worst in this regard.
So, I’m not that thrilled with this new model unless it means they are increasing opus token limits to what sonnet is at the present, and this new model gets the limits opus are at now.
BTW: the only skills I have in use are Obra Superpowers. I’ve been thinking if that’s at the origin of high token usage, but I doubt it.
I agree, the $20 plan really feels like a rip-off (and I'm not even using Claude Code! only chat).