{"id":57827,"date":"2025-08-10T22:02:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T22:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/57827\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T22:02:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T22:02:23","slug":"the-claude-party-is-almost-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/57827\/","title":{"rendered":"The Claude party is almost over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AI coding assistants are a frequent topic for InfoWorld and probably most tech publications. However, the dirty secret is that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/3980273\/sizing-up-the-ai-code-generators.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this landscape<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/4003742\/what-the-ai-coding-assistants-get-right-and-where-they-go-wrong.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">changes daily<\/a>. Not long ago <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/3853805\/vibe-coding-with-claude-code.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Claude Code<\/a> practically obliterated the competition. How? Well, it wasn\u2019t that the CLI was amazing (or <a href=\"https:\/\/aider.chat\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aider<\/a> would have run the board a year ago). It was Anthropic\u2019s new Claude Max pricing. $200 got you seemingly all you could eat and not just Sonnet but Opus 4, the company\u2019s higher-end, smarter reasoning model, available through the Claude Code CLI. <\/p>\n<p>The party is over next month. Anthropic just announced new weekly rate limits to go with their already de facto shrunk limits. This means that, for all of the people who have been using Claude to automatically generate code\u2014well, suddenly it won\u2019t be as good of a deal.<\/p>\n<p>Gemini and Qwen<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Google launched an open-source alternative, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/4025916\/ai-coding-at-the-command-line-with-gemini-cli.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gemini CLI<\/a>. Google\u2019s plan seemed more generous at first, but the free tier throttles you from gemini-2.5-pro to gemini-2.5-flash rather quickly. Flash is kinda dumb, so if you were coding on pro and the tool switches to flash, you\u2019re not going to like the result. The other option (at least at launch) was to give Google your API key, which combines a much more generous free tier and surprise billing (!). Google gonna Google. The service throws <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en-US\/docs\/Web\/HTTP\/Reference\/Status\/500\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HTTP 500<\/a> errors at random and the CLI is designed to <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/google-gemini\/gemini-cli\/blob\/main\/packages\/core\/src\/utils\/nextSpeakerChecker.ts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ask flash if pro should keep talking<\/a>, sending your whole conversation multiple times. Because you don\u2019t mind the token burn and latency, do you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI coding assistants are a frequent topic for InfoWorld and probably most tech publications. However, the dirty secret&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-57827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}