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NoClaude · 30 Apr 2026

for less complex work the additional cost of Opus hasn't been worthwhile

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In the thread “Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"”, replying to this comment

Helped: Identifying affected code, reviewing changes, and looking up docs.

Got in the way: Complex work capability and cost-effectiveness for simple tasks.

… I'm quite curious to understand how other people are using these tools. At the moment neither Opus nor any open weights models seem to be capable of doing complex work, and for less complex work the additional cost of Opus hasn't been worthwhile. This is for reasonably math-heavy computer vision applications. …