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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 gib444 »

simianwords wrote: post #32
echelon wrote: post #28

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 al…

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New theory of HN: every post on LLMs will attract the "what is wrong with AI? I don't get it [even though I've posted to HN every day for weeks/months on LLM/AI topics]. Please enlighten me" types

Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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Post by jhancock »

echelon wrote: post #28

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 al…

What leads you to say China AI is giving up on open weights?

I've been using GLM for over 6 months and pretty happy.

Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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Post by iLoveOncall »

jakobnissen wrote: post #23
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.

I think there's a much more nefarious reason that you're missing.

It's pretty clear that OpenAI has consistently used bots on social networks to peddle their products. This could just be the next iteration, mass spreading lies about Anthropic to get people to flock back to their own products.

That would explain why a lot of users in the comments of those posts are claiming that they don't see any changes to limits.

Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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Post by matheusmoreira »

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…

I certainly noticed a significant drop in reasoning power at some point after I subscribed to Claude. Since then I've applied all sorts of fixes that range from disabling adaptive thinking to maxing out thinking tokens to patching system prompts with an ad-hoc shell script from a gist. Even after all this, Opus will still sometimes go round and round in illogical circles, self-correcting constantly with the telltale "no wait" and undoing everything until it ends up right where it started with nothing to show for it after 100k tokens spent.

Whether it's due to bugs or actual malice, it's not a good look. I genuinely can't tell if it's buggy, if it's been intentionally degraded, if it's placebo or if it's all just an elaborate OpenAI psyop.

Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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Post by emaro »

simianwords wrote: post #25
lores wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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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There's not one thing that stands out, but he abandoned the entire core principles of OpenAI (took a 180), constantly lies to people and doesn't plan to stop.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may...

Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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Post by UqWBcuFx6NV4r »

kingkongjaffa wrote: post #40
jakobnissen wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Just one more anecdote: I'm on the enterprise team plan so a decent amount of usage. In March I could use Opus all day and it was getting great results. Since the last week of March and into April, I've had sessions where I maxed out session usage under 2 hours and it got stuck in overthinking loops, multiple turns of realising the same thing, dozens of paragraphs of "But wait, actually I need to do x" with slight va…

Whenever I see Opus say “but wait, …”—which is all the time—I get a little bit closer toward throwing my computer out the window. Sometimes I just collapse the thinking section, cross my fingers, and wait for the answer. It’s too frustrating watching the thinking process.

Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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Post by hirako2000 »

iLoveOncall wrote: post #44
jakobnissen wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I think there's a much more nefarious reason that you're missing. It's pretty clear that OpenAI has consistently used bots on social networks to peddle their products. This could just be the next iteration, mass spreading lies about Anthropic to get people to flock back to their own products. That would explain why a lot of users in the comments of those posts are claiming that they don't see any changes to limits.

Judging from the number of GitHub issues on Anthropic, shamelessly being dismissed as "fixed", I doubt openai needs the bots to tarnish that competitor.

Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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Post by magic_hamster »

echelon wrote: post #28

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 al…

> End of the PC era, there's nothing to tinker with anymore. And certainly no gradient for entrepreneurship for once-skilled labor capital.

This one seems too far fetched. Training models is widespread. There will always be open weight models in some form, and if we assume there will be some advancements in architecture, I bet you could also run them on much leaner devices. Even today you can run models on Raspberry Pis. I don't see a reason this will stop being a thing, there will be plenty of ways to tinker.

However, keep in mind the masses don't care about tinkering and never have. People want a ChatGPT experience, not a pytorch experience. In essence this is true for all tech products, not just AI.

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