Customers are always chasing the next big thing in this space. As a programmer who’s worked on mobile UIs and backends using CC, I can say the appeal isn’t really the model itself—it’s the form factor. It’s a decent product, but hardly groundbreaking or essential.
Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users
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Re: Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users
#162This is what really makes me sceptical of these tools. I've tried Claude Code and it does save some time even if I find the process boring and unappealing. But as much as I hate typing, my keyboard is mine and isn't just going to disappear one day, have its price hiked or refuse to work after 1000 lines. I would hate to get used to these tools then find I don't have them any more. I'm all for cutting down on typing b…
Now say it about electricity from the wall. Just because you might not be able to use it next week doesn’t mean the productivity gains today aren’t real.
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#163Does anyone not realize they are just using the typical drug dealer type business model? I used to do cocaine and it was a similar vibe. They will turn you into an AI junkie who no longer has motivation to do anything difficult on your own (despite having the skills and knowing how), and then, they will dramatically cut your usage limit and say you’ll need to pay more to use their AI. And you will gladly pay more, be…
A subcontracted dev that can do that much is way more than $2k. I’ve had $800-on-AI months and it was a good deal.
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#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
Uber operated at a loss for 9 years. They're now a profitable, market-winning business. Amazon operated at a loss for 9 years, and barely turned a profit for over a decade longer than that. They're now one of the greatest businesses of all time. Spotify operated at a loss for 17 years until becoming profitable. Tesla operated at a loss for 17 years before turning a profit. Palantir operated at a loss for 20 years bef…
Those aren’t good comparisons. Uber operated at a loss to destroy competition and raised prices after they did that. Amazon (the retailer) did the same and leveraged their position to enter new more lucrative markets. Dunno about Spotify, but Tesla and palantir both secured lucrative contracts and subsidies. Anthropic is against companies with deeper pockets and can’t spend to destroy competition, their current busin…
As long as Anthropic is better than their competitors they’ll continue to get my business.
Re: Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users
#165The funny thing is Claude 4.0 isn't even that 'smart' from a raw intelligence perspective compared to the other flagship models. They've just done the work to tailor it specifically for proper tool using during coding. Once other models catch up, they will not be able to be so stingy on limits. Google has the advantage here given they're running on their own silicon; can optimize for it; and have nearly unlimited cas…
The latest trend for the anti AI folks is just to deny it - to say that developers are imagining the benefits and then they demand hard numbers and data and when such hard numbers are not produced - they claim victory.
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#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
Who would have though including a hard depedency on third part service with unclear long term availability would be a problem! Paid compilers and remotely acessible mainframes all over again - people apparently never learn.
Everyone that successfully avoided social media for the last decade escaped with their mental health. Everyone that carefully moderates their ai intake (e.g don’t depend on Claude Code) will also escape with their skills over the next decade, others will become AI fiends, just the like social media fiends. Just knowing tech like the internet and ai can fuck your whole brain up is enough to be ahead of the curve. If y…
Very thoughtful comment, let me try to capture it more clearly.
Zuckerberg recently said that those not using AI glasses will be cognitively disadvantaged in the future.
Imagine an AI-native from the future and one of the fancy espresso coffee machines that we have today. They will be able to know right away how to operate them from their AI assistants, but they won't be able to figure out how they work on their own.
That's the future that Zuckerberg wants. Naturally, fancy IT offices will likely be gone. The AI-native would have bought the coffee machine for nostalgia effect for a large sum, trying to combat existential dread and feeling of failure which are fueled by their behavior being even more directly coerced into consumption.
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#167It’s like you buy an M4 MacBook and silently Apple throttles it and makes it an M1. If that happened every tech magazine would write about it, consumer advocates would be in rage.
How’s it possible that AI companies sell you a product for 100 USD a month and silently degrade it?
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#168That’s funny I literally started the $200/month plan this week because I routinely spend $300+/month on API tokens. And I was thinking to myself, “How does this make any sense financially for Anthropic to let me have all of this for $200/month?” And then I kept getting hit with those overloaded api errors so I canceled my plan and went back to API tokens. I still have no idea what they’re doing over there but I’ll ha…
Why wouldn't you assume that it implies the API rates are massively inflated? I don't do anything really but started playing around last week. I put $5 in tokens in to see how long it would last while I play around. It came out at 30min of compute or whatever dir 3hrs of playing around. So my dumb back of the envelope says $10/hr of compute means $90k per year. Sure GPUs are expensive but are they $90k year expensive…
How did you come up with 30 min of compute from playing around with it for 3 hours? Did you spend 2.5 hours typing while playing around?
Re: Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users
#169At some point they’ll need to make money. Expect it to go way up
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#170Earlier quoted context omitted.
Who would have though including a hard depedency on third part service with unclear long term availability would be a problem! Paid compilers and remotely acessible mainframes all over again - people apparently never learn.
It’s only a hard dependency if you don’t know and never learn how to program. For developers who read and understand the code being generated, the tool could go away and it would only slow you down, not block progress. And even if you don’t, it really isn’t a hard dependency on a particular tool. There are multiple competing tools and models to choose from, so if you can’t make progress with one, switch to another. T…
My experience has been that Claude can layout a lot of things in minutes that would take me hours if not days. Often I can dictate the precise logic and then claude get's most of the way there, with a little prompting claude can usually get even further. The amount of work I can get done is much more substantial than it used to be.
I think there is a lot of reticence to adopt AI for coding but I'm seeing it as a step change for coding the way powerful calculators/workstation computers were for traditional engineering disciplines. The volume of work they were limited to using a slide rule was much lower than now with a computer.