I also cancelled my subscription.The $20 Pro plan has become completely unusable for any real work. What is especially frustrating is that Claude Chat and Claude Code now share the exact same usage limits — it makes zero sense from a product standpoint when the workflows are so different. Even the $200 Max plan got heavily nerfed. What used to easily last me a full week (or more) of solid daily use now burns out in just a few days. Combined with the quality drop and unpredictable token consumption, it simply stopped being worth it.
That could totally power next generation of green-screen techs. Generative actors may not find favorable response in the audiences; but SFX, decor, extras, environments that react to actors' actions - amazing potential.
I've been comparing R1 to O1 and O1-pro, mostly in coding, refactoring and understanding of open source code.
I can say that R1 is on par with O1. But not as deep and capable as O1-pro.
R1 is also a lot more useful than Sonnete. I actually haven't used Sonnete in awhile.
R1 is also comparable to the Gemini Flash Thinking 2.0 model, but in coding I feel like R1 gives me code that works without too much tweaking.
I often give entire open-source project's codebase (or big part of code) to all of them and ask the same question - like add a plugin, or fix xyz, etc.
O1-pro is still a clear and expensive winner. But if I were to choose the second best, I would say R1.
Results + new binary https://github.com/clark-labs-inc/clark-browser