On Claude Pro, Kagi Assistant and Charm Hyper

I’ve cancelled my Claude Pro subscription. It wasn’t out of any dissatisfaction with Claude; on the contrary, I still think it’s the leading LLM for general use and especially for coding. No, my choice was more because I realised I was wasting money. I already pay for Kagi, and even upgraded to their Duo plan so I could give my wife a search engine that works for her (versus the other way around). As part of that subscription, I can use Kagi Assistant. For general-purpose ‘consolidated search’ — answers — I ran tests of asking Claude and Kagi the same question, and more often than not they came out very similar, if not the same. I don’t do a lot of programming, but I probably end up running Claude Code once a week to do something far faster than my rusty tech chops can muster. All of my server machines run FreeBSD, which Claude Code recently ended support for when they moved to shipping their own package versus distribution via npm. I’ve been a fan of Charm’s mods for some time, which…