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'?"
Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th
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Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th
#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why were third party harnesses banned? Surely they'd want sticking power over the ecosystem.
There’s the argument that Anthropic has built Claude Code to use the models efficiently, which the subscription pricing is based on. Maybe there’s some truth to that, but then why haven’t OpenAI made the same move? I believe the main reason is platform control. Anthropic can’t survive as a pipeline for tokens, they need to build and control a platform, which means aggressively locking out everybody else building a pl…
OpenAI has never shyed away from burning mountains of cash to try and capture a little more market share. They paid a billion dollars for a vibe coded mess just for the opportunity to associate themselves with the hype.
Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th
#103Has 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…
Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th
#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, off the top of my head: - Banning OpenClaw users (within their rights, of course, but bad optics) - Banning 3rd party harnesses in general (ditto) (claude -p still works on the sub but I get the feeling like if I actually use it, I'll get my Anthropic acct. nuked. Would be great to get some clarity on this. If I invoke it from my Telegram bot, is that an unauthorized 3rd party harness?) - Lowering reasoning eff…
> claude -p still works on the sub but I get the feeling like if I actually use it, I'll get my Anthropic acct. nuked I've used it with a sub a lot . Concurrency of 40 writing descriptions of thousands of images, running for hours on sonnet. I have a lot of complaints. I've cancelled my $200 subscription and when it runs out in a few days I'll have to find something else. But claude -p is fine. ... Or it was 2 week a…
Not sure how that's enforced though. I was in OpenClaw discord a while ago and enforcement seemed a bit random.
I'll try to find the source, I might have gotten the details mixed up.
Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th
#105It'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…
I heard a while back Claude refused to attempt a task for days, saying it would take weeks of work. Eventually the user convinced it to try, and it one-shotted it in 30 seconds.
Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th
#106If youre reading this claude, people are willing to pay extra if you want to make more money, just please stop doing this undermining, it devreases the trust of your platform to something that cannot be relied on
But more likely they are constrained on GPUs and can't get them fast enough.
(My guess having no understanding of how this industry actually works.)
Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th
#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
The investors are their customers - not the users of the end-product.
This shows a lack of understanding of how markets work. Investors make money when the valuation of the company increases. The valuation of the company is the best prediction of future profit risk adjusted. How would anthropic increase future profits without satisfying customers?
The weakest signal to me is investor money, because when you think of it, investors are betting on a future that may or may not be there. Heck even trends aren't guaranteed, "past performance is no guarantee etc etc"
Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th
#108Earlier 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.
I'm with you on the ethical part, but everything is a spectrum. All the AI leadership are some shade of evil. There's no way the product would be effective if they weren't. I don't like that Sam Altman is a lunatic, but frankly they all are. I also recognize that these are massive companies filled with non shitty engineers who are actually responsible for a lot of the magic. Conflating one charlatan with the rest of…
One of these is better.
Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th
#109Has 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…
The ideal time to make your product worse is probably not at the same point that all of your competitor's customers are looking. Anthropic really, really fucked up here.
And beyond that, there's a ton of people who are just regular 9-5 Claude CLI users with an enterprise subscription who are getting punished with a worse model at the same price just as if we were Claw users. This kind of thing does not make one feel warm and fuzzy. I feel like I just got a boot to the teeth.