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Is Claude Max Worth $100 a Month? | Anthropic Beats OpenAI on Business Adoption | xAI Launches Grok Build | Codex Sells 200 Items in 4 Days | HTML Is the New Markdown | EP13
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Rik Cancels His $100 Claude Max Plan Live on Air
At 31:03 · chapter starts 29:55
After Anthropic doubled daily limits without proportionally increasing weekly limits, Rik hit 92% of his weekly Claude limit by Thursday, illustrating the frustration of power users.
Rik cancelled his $100/month Claude Max plan in real time, reallocating the spend to Cursor ($20), Codex ($20), Claude ($20), and xAI ($20). His logic: you don't need frontier models for most tasks, and diversifying across providers eliminates the frustration of hitting weekly token limits mid-week.
Rik cancelled his $100/month Claude Max subscription live on air, reallocating the spend across Cursor ($20), Codex ($20), Claude ($20), and xAI ($20), with $20 left for video generation.
Grok 4.1 Fast was available at less than one-tenth the cost of Grok 4.7, offering competitive intelligence at dramatically lower token prices before being discontinued.
An Anthropic researcher argued HTML is superior to Markdown for AI agent workflows — more visual, interactive, and human-readable. But Matt tested it and found HTML uses 5x more tokens per file. The tradeoff is real: visual clarity catches errors earlier and leads to better outputs, but the cost premium is significant for anyone already hitting their Claude limits.
