So for a long time as a student I refused to use anything other than Claude Code, like genuinely wouldn’t even look at alternatives. I was on the max plan for a month thinking I’d try it out but I obviously can’t afford that long term so I dropped down to pro and honestly the usage limits were pretty atrocious. The problem was I had become so reliant on opus 4.5 that sonnet 4.5 just didn’t cut it for me anymore, and hence my productivity plummeted after downgrading. Out of frustration I started looking around and tried Codex which genuinely surprised me, like it was actually better than Claude Code in some areas which I was not expecting at all. Then I realised I get free GitHub Copilot as a student and started using that in Open Code, and then when opus 4.6 dropped I could get access to that through Copilot too. Sonnet 4.6 came out shortly after and now I basically have unlimited usage spread across three tools and my projects are moving faster than they ever did when I was just locked into one. I guess the point is don’t be me. I wasted time being weirdly loyal to one tool when the landscape was moving so fast. Mix things up, see what works, especially if you’re a student with access to free stuff you might not even know about. submitted by /u/Substantial_Wheel909
Originally posted by u/Substantial_Wheel909 on r/ClaudeCode