@marcinteodoru: Most people waste money in Cursor using Claude Code Plan everything with GPT 5.1 High first. Flows. Steps. Scope. It is cheaper and very capable. Then switch to Op 4.5 only for coding. Clean instructions. Less back and forth. This one habit has saved me hundreds of dollars.
So your idea for reducing paying opus 4.5 is using ChatGPT? Claude's performance is mostly shining in planning debugging and understanding user intention deeply! You lose all of that! In some situations when the coding task was not very complicated, I did the opposite. I used Gemini 3 for coding while still doing the planning & debugging with Claude 4.5.
2026-01-05 22:18:53
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Nick :
This is interesting. I have heard it the other way. Use opus to plan (better brain) and once it has created the better plan, use sonnet or gpt to build. Will give this a try too
2026-01-06 16:57:19
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Mr.Meg :
400 bucks in one month for cloude. thank U for this tip.
2026-01-05 22:41:03
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therealargonate :
Opus 4.5 is much better an planning the 5.1
2026-01-06 16:45:14
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Bekskod :
wich ai agent is it?
2026-01-25 06:51:45
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Daher hammoura :
Or use opus 4.5 for planing and sonnet 4.5 or codex for executing and building
2026-01-27 14:25:26
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CalmwithNOA :
this explanation makes ai automation tools more approachable. i’ve been using workbeaver since describing the task is all it needs to perform the steps, which fits how i work.
2026-01-06 15:04:20
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Mala Baraba :
thrnks
2026-01-05 22:38:47
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imrohanzaki :
i have vscode primary and debugger on cursor
2026-01-06 10:07:54
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AI & Automations :
well said 👌😎
2026-01-12 23:08:11
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Syed A Bilgrami :
thank you
2026-01-06 01:33:12
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