Corey McClain

@IanFukino @steipete @davemorin I’ve been using Codex since Thursday? Burned through my usage on the plus plan. Didn’t know it was so good. I showed it my Claude set up, it replicated it found and fixed flaws Claude told me it had repaired.

I’ve been using GPT 5.4 pro for some time with a few agents. Incredibly smart, solid orchestrator and can handle agentic work well. I trust it. Huge opportunity for @steipete and OpenAI to make it the go to brain for Openclaw. What could be better… it’s a bit too verbose. Doesn’t alway initiate tasks and stops to explain too often. Which slows projects down. $200 with 2x usage seems to be the fair sweet spot too!

woke up and my mentions are full of these Both me and @davemorin tried to talk sense into Anthropic, best we managed was delaying this for a week. Funny how timings match up, first they copy some popular features into their closed harness, then they lock out open source.

@RubenRohlstein @saisatvik_ @claudeai You are mixing the baseline. Anthropic says the $100 Max plan is 5x Pro capacity per session and the $200 Max plan is 20x Pro capacity per session. Both numbers are measured against Pro, not against each other. So the $200 plan is 20x Pro total, not 20x the $100 plan.

@iamcoreymcclain @saisatvik_ @claudeai you are wrong sir. there is 5x pro and 20x the usage of 5x pro

Just 2 prompts. The input was around 300 characters in total, and the output was around 700-800 characters in total. It feels like @claudeai is just scamming with credits. Thought to upgrade to the $200 plan, but now it feels like it's not worth it.

@RubenRohlstein @saisatvik_ @claudeai I think Max $200 is only 20X more usage than Pro.

@saisatvik_ @claudeai max plan is worth it. you have 100x the usage for 10x the price.

@saisatvik_ @claudeai Anthropic should just cancel the $20 plan because once ChatGPT catches up, it’s a wrap.

Everyone is going to be back pedaling about ChatGPT in a few months. Claude is a great model with forward thinking capabilities and it is my go-to, but only the naïve count them out. And let’s not pretend their $20 plan is probably the best low ticket AI offer around.

@rohanpaul_ai @bcherny Anthropic wants people to believe Claude can outperform humans. They hint at this suggesting specifications may replace skills (AI general knowledge supersedes human subject matter expert designed workflow). I still think SMEs improve model outcomes through orchestrated context.

Claude Code creator Boris Cherny (@bcherny): AI works better when you give tools and freedom instead of forcing them into rigid, hand-designed workflows—because general learning systems scale better. "Ask not what the model can do for you, ask what.."

@bygregorr @rohanpaul_ai @bcherny ‘Results’ are subjective. Do what works for you.

@rohanpaul_ai @bcherny I'm not sure "give freedom" is the full story. The teams getting best results I've seen are obsessive about context quality, not just removing constraints.

@bridgemindai Not sure if you saw their tweet about the rate limits but I don’t think they’re going to ‘fix it’. This was a choice. I think they’re choosing enterprise customers over everyone. They have to if they want to keep their conservative stance and not overspend on compute.

Just cancelled my $200/month Claude Max subscription. Rate limits lowered dramatically out of nowhere. 529 overloaded errors daily. Hit my 5 hour limit in under an hour. Multiple days of outages this week. Claude Opus 4.6 is the best coding model when it works. The problem is it hasn't been working. Switching to Codex with GPT 5.4 as my main driver. Better rate limits. More reliable. Actually available when I need it. I don't want to leave Claude Code. I've built BridgeMind with it. But I can't build a company on infrastructure I can't depend on. Anthropic, fix the reliability. Fix the rate limits. I'll come back the day you do.

@aakashgupta This is a good move by OpenAI. I like it. Can't wait to see what they launch with all this extra compute freed up.

OpenAI just exited the video generation business entirely. App dead. API dead. No video inside ChatGPT. Disney’s $1 billion deal, signed four months ago, is dead. Read that again. This isn’t a consolidation into the super app. Altman told staff Tuesday that OpenAI is winding down all products using video models. Disney’s own statement says they respect OpenAI’s decision to “exit the video generation business.” The Sora research team is being redirected to robotics. The reason is sitting right there in the competitive data. Anthropic hit $19 billion in annualized revenue by early 2026 selling text and code. No video generation. No image generation. No consumer social app. No Disney deal. One product surface: chat, code, computer use, all in one place. OpenAI looked at where every dollar of market growth was coming from and saw the answer: coding and enterprise. So now they’re copying the model. ChatGPT, Codex, and the browser merge into one app. Instant Checkout killed today too. Every consumer experiment is getting cut. What remains is the Anthropic playbook: one app, code and chat, enterprise and developer focus. The Sora numbers explain the urgency. Total consumer revenue across iOS and Android since September: $1.4 million. Peak month was $540,000. Every video generation burned GPU compute that could have been running inference for ChatGPT or Codex instead. OpenAI’s own head of Sora announced generation limits because chips couldn’t keep up. At $14 billion in projected 2026 losses, every GPU matters. Google just inherited the AI video market by default. Nano Banana already lives inside Gemini. No standalone app to manage, no separate brand to support. Among the majors, they’re the only ones left. Runway, Kling, Minimax, Luma, and the other independents are still shipping, but none of them have Google’s distribution. Disney put $1 billion in stock warrants on a product that lasted six months. The deal was announced in December. Characters from Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars were supposed to be generating fan videos on Sora by now. Instead, Disney is writing a polite press statement about “respecting OpenAI’s decision” while its legal team unwinds a deal that never produced a single licensed video. Four months from billion-dollar partnership to obituary. That’s how fast the AI product landscape reprices when the unit economics don’t work.

@robertoblake What dashboard is that?

UGLY TRUTH ABOUT YOUTUBE YOU DON’T WANT TO HEAR… More Effort into Editing Won’t Save a Boring Topic, a Bad Unattractive Thumbnail, and/or Bland and Uninteresting Title. It’s hard for people emotionally invested in their editing and craftsmanship to hear that. But it’s worse for every small creator who listens to the narrative of “quality content” and “craft” all day long… Who struggle and still don’t get traction, because they are putting effort into the part of content that has nothing to do with whether someone clicks on a video in the first place. You would think this would be OBVIOUS… but it’s really not. And it’s absolutely killing small creators and destroying them because the NARRATIVE WAR, has been won by the people who have the luxury of making whatever they want… But forgot that they could NEVER have any of the luxury beliefs they preach about content if they had to work 40-50 hours a week and still make that content as a solo creator without a team anymore… And that is the quiet part that nobody is saying out loud. If your favorite YouTuber or even favorite Guru had to work from 9-5 and still make the same quality of high effort content they preach about… Could they realistically do it and put that out every single week without an editor and thumbnail artist and make livable money that would let them leave a regular job… The short answer is probably not. But the REALISTIC ADVICE around content creation for that solo working class creator is not going to be sexy and is not going to get 100,000 views and make the person giving it look like they know what they were doing. The Brutally Honest Truth is that sustained success, realistic advice and accessible audience growth, is NOT SEXY and mostly a lot of the not fun stuff really matters. Figuring out a Title for a video and getting into a 3rd to 5th grade reading level, and a topic that 10M-100M people care about… knowing you need to get 1-10% of them to click and watch… That’s NOT FUN… even for your favorite YouTuber… But it’s the only reason you know who they are… They made a video on a topic you and at least 1M or more people care about. And were able to package a title and thumbnail that got your attention and interest… Was relevant to you when you saw it (timing)… And when you clicked on it you didn’t feel bored, tricked and you didn’t experience Awful Audio or Video Quality. The editing likely was not even something you noticed consciously… This is why AUTHENTICITY is coming back to YouTube… OVER EDITING IS DEAD… And Big YouTubers Killed It… If your editing is your whole identity and you’re not focusing on Topic/Tile/Thumbnail/Timing Then it’s probably why YouTube feels like luck or a lottery.

@SkyFireVentures @claudeai I think the only major benefit might be better context management by caching your files especially since Cowork already consumes so many tokens.

@claudeai How is this different from setting up working directories that have local context on .md files and having claude.md route to everything as needed?

Projects are now available in Cowork. Keep your tasks and context in one place, focused on one area of work. Files and instructions stay on your computer. Import existing projects in one click, or start fresh.

@LuizaJarovsky Meanwhile some of the fastest growing YouTube channels are AI avatars. Change Nobody to I and I will agree. There’s a market for everything.

Nobody wants to read AI-generated posts. Nobody wants to read AI-generated emails. Nobody wants to read AI-generated newsletters. Nobody wants to read AI-generated reports. Nobody wants to read AI-generated articles. Nobody wants to read AI-generated anything.

@scottastevenson They have different styles or responses now. I liked the professional one for a day or two until my mind starting tracking the patterns. Maybe getting rid of speech patterns will make it feel natural? I can honestly say I’ve never felt like Claude more Gemini used speech patterns

The default writing style of ChatGPT makes me nauseous. I’m sick of seeing it in X comments, blog posts, emails, memos and ChatGPT itself. It’s out of fashion, the flavor has grown stale. I use Claude just to escape it. Very simple fix for OpenAI: change the secret system prompt to abolish this tiresome tone. Or create a more automatic way for people to give it their own tone. This feels like an instance where a 10 minute change could make a product 2x better

Claude desktop isn’t responding. I tried to sign out, but it wouldn’t let me. I had to use ChatGPT to find out there’s a server side connection problem 😂

@savaerx @PaulRBerg I don’t think so. I just started using Claude code a few days ago and noticed that.

@PaulRBerg it's babysitting your clipboard honestly. more and more tools add these friction points and call it ux. do they at least let you expand to see the full text?

This is the most annoying thing in Claude Code. Hiding raw text when you paste more than 4 lines. Terrible UX decision.

ChatGPT Skills in Beta for ChatGPT Business.

@kiaran_ritchie AI is going to replace all software. Business has been somewhere around 340-370 billion. I think I read on software every year and when you start looking at other costs associated with that it can get even higher. Businesses are going to spend for AI even if consumers don’t.

I don't see how Anthropic, OpenAI or any of the model providers have any hope of defending their moats. And consequently, I think they're going to get wiped out. Right now, in early 2026 they have a meaningful advantage in terms of model capability. But far cheaper and open source models are not far behind. How long can they maintain a meaningful advantage? For the vast majority of use cases, we don't actually need much higher intelligence. It doesn't take 140 IQ to automate Turbotax or powerpoint. Eventually we will be saturated in cheap, local models that are "good enough". Of course some scientific labs and frontier research will always want the latest and greatest. But that market is orders of magnitude smaller than these company valuations can justify. What am I missing?

@chrishume_ @robertoblake It does get boring, but you have to say it at least 7 to 8 times before they actually hear you. It just comes down to repackaging the same idea.

@robertoblake Saying the same thing a million times gets old

Creators getting bored and refusing to do what works… even when the audience is literally begging them for more… Has destroyed more YouTube channels than any policy or algorithm change… And it’s not even close… 🤦🏾‍♂️ Most people reading this don’t even know that 80% of their lifetime views came from non-subscribers… 50%+ of all the views on their last 10 videos were from first time viewers. And yet they think “viewer fatigue” is some problem… When the truth is they are bored and victim of their own success, at finding something that actually works over and over again…

@mstockton Or even better paste it into Claude Code on your phone 🤷🏿‍♂️

@mstockton Good workflow. Skip number six and seven. Copy the transcript from the Voice Memo app and paste it to your notes. It will automatically show up on your Mac.

By far my biggest advice to anyone trying to adopt AI properly: 1. Pay a little bit of money to Anthropic 2. Download Claude Code 3. Open Claude Code 4. Press 'Shift-Tab' until it says 'plan mode on' 5. Open Voice Memo on your iPhone. Just talk about all the things you want to accomplish. When you think you are done, just keep talking. Make sure it is at least 10 minutes, hopefully longer 6. Send this Voice Memo to your computer 7. Download MacWhisper and use it to transcribe this voice memo. Trust me, you will want MacWhisper and will use it later a lot 8. Type into Claude Code: "I have never used you before but I talked about some things. I will paste those things in below. Please read the things and ask me any questions you need to in order to help me figure out how to use you to be awesome. Ask me lots of questions until I tell you I am done" 9. Then paste in the transcript 10. Then press enter Then just let Claude take the wheel, and them please send me a DM if this works. Also, if this just sounds crazy, just literally take this entire message and paste it into whatever AI you are using and say 'some weird person told me to paste this into you, I want to use it, but I don't know how. What should I do?' I am just trying to help you get started. Curiosity and persistence are the most important things.