Sunday, February 1, 2026
Claude Code Performance & Alternatives
Users are discussing Claude Code's performance issues, including battery drain and inefficiency, comparing it to alternatives like Codex and using it for tasks like deobfuscation despite its problems.
I was wrong. Claude Code's performance is unacceptable. Whenever I open it, my laptop's fans start roaring and my battery goes to shit. No issues with Codex or OpenCode.
my honest thoughts after using openclaw/moltbot/clawdbot: after 24 hrs of usage i dont use it anymore for anything genuinely serious just use claude code/codex directly, hosted on a server if i want on-the-go work openclaw uses tokens like a mf and it is NOT efficient at all
I got the multi-processing for OpenClaw working. I started with dual processes first, then gradually added more threads as my own efficiency increased. After Claude Code came out, OpenClaw became the second tool that truly feels like cheating in terms of efficiency. It can no