Ask HN: Any good alternatives to Claude that are just not Claude?
HN Claude/Codex/Fable reports: Ask HN: Any good alternatives to Claude that are just not Claude?. I really like using Claude for writing docs, sum up texts…
By Dillip Chowdary • Aug 12, 2026 • Source: HN Claude/Codex/Fable
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HN Claude/Codex/Fable reports: Ask HN: Any good alternatives to Claude that are just not Claude?. I really like using Claude for writing docs, sum up texts or search causes of big logical bugs that would take hours to debug, tho I hate the fact that you don't know how many tokens you have left, what the actual limit is etc. They just give you a damn percentage that tells nothing, id like something that is first of…
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