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Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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Post by zeroCalories »

jeltz wrote: post #9
cassianoleal wrote: post #5

The title should be changed. It makes it look like they upped the TTL from 1 h to 5 months. The SI symbol for minutes is "min", not "M". A compromise would be to use the OP notation "m".

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Several thoughts went through my head before I realized what's wrong:

1. I guess longer caching means more stale data, which is why it's a downgrade? 2. Maybe this isn't the TTL I thought it was? 3. Maybe this isn't the cache I thought?

Then I clicked on the link and realized I had been mislead my the title.

Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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Post by lores »

davidkuennen wrote: post #13

On slightly off topic note: Codex is absolutely fantastic right now. I'm constantly in awe since switching from Claude a week ago.

I would switch to Codex, but Altman is such a naked sociopath and OpenAI so devoid of ethical business practices that I can't in good conscience. I'm not under any illusion that Anthropic is ethical, but it is so far a step up from OpenAI.

Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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Post by jakobnissen »

sunaurus wrote: post #16

Has anybody else noticed a pretty significant shift in sentiment when discussing Claude/Codex with other engineers since even just a few months ago? Specifically because of the secret/hidden nature of these changes. I keep getting the sense that people feel like they have no idea if they are getting the product that they originally paid for, or something much weaker, and this sentiment seems to be constantly spreadin…

Yeah I’ve seen this too. It’s difficult for me to tell if the complaints are due to a legitimate undisclosed nerf of Claude, or whether it’s just the initial awe of Opus 4.6 fading and people increasingly noticing its mistakes.

Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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Post by pxtail »

sunaurus wrote: post #16

Has anybody else noticed a pretty significant shift in sentiment when discussing Claude/Codex with other engineers since even just a few months ago? Specifically because of the secret/hidden nature of these changes. I keep getting the sense that people feel like they have no idea if they are getting the product that they originally paid for, or something much weaker, and this sentiment seems to be constantly spreadin…

There's still plenty of "leave my fellow multbillion corp alone" type ones,it means that corp can and should screw it's loving customer base harder.

Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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Post by simianwords »

lores wrote: post #22
davidkuennen wrote: post #13

On slightly off topic note: Codex is absolutely fantastic right now. I'm constantly in awe since switching from Claude a week ago.

I would switch to Codex, but Altman is such a naked sociopath and OpenAI so devoid of ethical business practices that I can't in good conscience. I'm not under any illusion that Anthropic is ethical, but it is so far a step up from OpenAI.

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Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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Post by toenail »

davidkuennen wrote: post #13

On slightly off topic note: Codex is absolutely fantastic right now. I'm constantly in awe since switching from Claude a week ago.

I have also switched from claude to codex a few weeks ago. After deciding to let agents only do focused work I needed less context, and the work was easier to review. Then I realized codex can deliver the same quality, and it's paid through my subscription instead of per token.

Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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Post by _blk »

disillusioned wrote: post #8

It's also routinely failing the car wash question across all models now, which wasn't the case a month ago. :-/ Seeing some things about how the effort selector isn't working as intended necessarily and the model is regressing in other ways: over-emphasizing how "difficult" a problem is to solve and choosing to avoid it because of the "time" it would take, but quoted in human effort, or suggesting the "easier" path f…

Awesome, I didn't know about the car wash question.

Totally true, also tokens seem to burn through much faster. More parallelism could explain some of it but where I could work on 3-5 projects at once on the max plan a month ago, I can't even get one to completion now on the same Opus model before the 5h session locks me up..

Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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Post by echelon »

Anthropic isn't your friend.

Phase 1: $200/mo prosumer engineer tool

Phase 2: AI layoffs / "it's just AI washing"

Phase 3: $20,000/mo limited release model "too dangerous" to use

Phase 4: Accelerated layoffs / two person teams. Rehiring of certain personnel at lower costs.

Phase 5: "Our new model can decompile and rewrite any commercial software. We just wrote a new kernel after looking at Linux (bye, bye GPL!) We also decompiled the latest Zelda game, ported the engine to Rust, and made a new game with it. Source code has no value. Even compiled and obfuscated code is a breeze to clone."

Phase 6: $100k/mo model that replicates entire engineering teams, only large companies can afford it. Ordinary users can't buy. More layoffs.

Phase N: People can't afford computing anymore. Everything is thin clients and rented. It's become like the private railroad industry. End of the PC era. Like kids growing up on smartphones, there's nothing to tinker with anymore. And certainly no gradient for entrepreneurship for once-skilled labor capital.

Anothropic used to be cool before they started gating access. Limiting Claw/OpenCode was strike one. Mythos is strike two.

Y'all should have started hating on their ethics when they started complaining about being distilled. For training they conducted on materials they did not own.

We need open weights companies now more than ever. Too bad China seems to be giving up on the idea.

"You wouldn't distill an Opus."

Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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Post by simianwords »

pxtail wrote: post #24
sunaurus wrote: post #16

Has anybody else noticed a pretty significant shift in sentiment when discussing Claude/Codex with other engineers since even just a few months ago? Specifically because of the secret/hidden nature of these changes. I keep getting the sense that people feel like they have no idea if they are getting the product that they originally paid for, or something much weaker, and this sentiment seems to be constantly spreadin…

There's still plenty of "leave my fellow multbillion corp alone" type ones,it means that corp can and should screw it's loving customer base harder.

The enshittification meme has been taken too seriously to the point where it is shoehorned into every single place possible.

It is not in the interests for Anthropic to screw its customer base. Running a frontier lab comes with tradeoffs between training, inference and other areas.

Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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Post by PontifexMinimus »

cassianoleal wrote: post #5

The title should be changed. It makes it look like they upped the TTL from 1 h to 5 months. The SI symbol for minutes is "min", not "M". A compromise would be to use the OP notation "m".

I agree. My first reaction was "what the fuck's an 'M'?"
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