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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 klempner »

politelemon wrote: post #76
andai wrote: post #65

Earlier 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…

Why were third party harnesses banned? Surely they'd want sticking power over the ecosystem.

Note that the thing that's banned is using third party harnesses with their subscription based pricing.

If you're paying normal API prices they'll happily let you use whatever harness you want.

Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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Post by dns_snek »

PunchyHamster wrote: post #52
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…

Stop thinking billion dollar publicly traded companies are "cool" just because they make widget you like. You will be backstabbed You will be squeezed for all they can. And you will be betrayed. > 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 a…

> Stop thinking billion dollar publicly traded companies are "cool" just because they make widget you like.

Anthropic is a private company but nevertheless, the sentiment is accurate and applies to all kinds of corporations.

Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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Post by config_yml »

throwaway2027 wrote: post #78

It's absolutely ridiculous how stupid Claude is now. I sometimes notice it and last year too but it feels like it's just last year before December model.

Feels similar to Claude last August/September. Knowing Claude some Agent probably reverted the fix from back then ^^

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/a-postmortem-of-three-...

Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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Post by airstrike »

christoph wrote: post #97
derangedHorse wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pretty bad decision on his part. I've been telling other engineers within my company who felt threatened by AI that this would happen. That prices would rise and the marginal cost for changes to big codebases would start to exceed the cost of an engineer's salary. API credits are expensive, especially for huge contexts, and sometimes the model will use $200 in credits trying to solve a problem that could be fixed in…

A good lesson for all - I always really liked the Picasso version: In a bustling restaurant, an excited patron recognized the famous artist Picasso dining alone. Seizing the moment, the patron approached Picasso with a simple request. With a plain napkin and a big smile, he asked the artist for a drawing. He promised payment for his troubles. Picasso, ever the creator, didn’t hesitate. From his pocket, he produced a…

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Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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Post by stavros »

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…

It feels like I'm getting less and less for my money every day. A few weeks ago I was programming all week and never getting close to the limit, yesterday half my weekly limit went away in a day. Changing the limits mid-subscription is just theft.

Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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Post by apetresc »

andai wrote: post #105
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…

> over-emphasizing how "difficult" a problem is to solve and choosing to avoid it because of the "time" it would take 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.

For days? Someone spent days trying to convince Claude to do something?

Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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Post by dns_snek »

Zetaphor wrote: post #99
jhancock wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

People keep repeating this without any real thought behind it because of the high profile resignations on the Qwen team. Meanwhile the Minimax team just released a new open weights version of their 229B model yesterday. So much for that narrative. The AI landscape in China is larger than just Qwen and Alibaba.

Of course, but for how long? Do you think that companies will keep giving away valuable assets for free forever, or do you think that in the near future there's going to be an open weights model that's so good that people keep using it indefinitely instead of going back to frontier model providers?

The first one is just incredibly naive, the second might be true for some people, for some tasks, but it's not going to capture the majority who're chasing the latest and greatest to "keep up".

Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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Post by jeremyjh »

andai wrote: post #104
esperent wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

The other day I read that letting another agent invoke claude -p was considered a violation (i.e. letting OpenClaw delegate to Claude Code). 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.

It’s not a “violation” but they said it would be charged as extra usage.

Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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Post by nojs »

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…

My working theory is that all models are approximately the same, and the variance in quality mostly depends on how long they think for.

So the trick is to always set to max, and then begin every task with “this is an extremely complex task, do not complete it without extensive deep thinking and research” or whatever.

You’re basically fighting a battle to make the model think more, against the defaults getting more and more nerfed to save costs.

Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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Post by sgt »

zazibar wrote: post #74
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…

A month ago the company I work at with over 400 engineers decided to cancel all IDE subscriptions (Visual Studio, JetBrains, Windsurf, etc.) and move everyone over to Claude Code as a "cost-saving measure" (along with firing a bunch of test engineers). There was no migration plan - the EVP of Technology just gave a demo showing 2 greenfield projects he'd built with Claude Opus over a weekend and told everyone to copy…

But cancelling IDE subscriptions? You need a proper IDE to along side AI augmented development unless you want to simply be along for the ride.
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