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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 oooyay »

deaux wrote: post #220
ls612 wrote: post #199

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s the same problem people have with Google. If they ban you for some AI hallucinated reason you have no recourse other than going viral on Hacker News.

I haven't seen a single case of that happening with Anthropic yet. Every time someone has gotten banned it's because they either used third party harnesses which went to great lengths to impersonate claude code (obvious evasion), or because they set things up so it maxxed out their usage 24/7. I'll change my mind when I see otherwise. And this isn't being positive about Anthropic support or their treatment of users,…

I plugged this question into Claude and told it to limit me to 10:

1. Cancer patient banned mid-payment — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46675740

2. Hobbyist coder, VPN trigger, forms into void for 10+ months — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47286867

3. "Reinstated" but still locked out — two systems out of sync — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46007408

4. Banned for testing vision API — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39988137

5. Banned on first ever prompt ("What do you know about Hacker News?") — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39698788

6. Mass banning wave, some banned before first use — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39672765

7. Entire company banned without warning, thousands of users stranded — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42210199

8. Forced new account (no email change support) → immediately banned — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46339741

9. Banned for scaffolding a Claude.md file, support email never arrives — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46723384

10. $81 billing overcharge, human promised, month of silence — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693679

Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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Post by sunnybeetroot »

stingraycharles wrote: post #140
joshstrange wrote: post #75

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> (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?) 100% this, I’ve posted the same sentiment here on HN. I hate the chilling effect of the bans and the lack of clarity on what is and is not allowed.

In this case, they handled things pretty well. You can still use openclaw etc with your regular Anthropic subscription, it will just count towards your extra credits / usage which you can buy for a 30% discount compared to API pricing. And they gave everyone one month’s value in credits. I don’t think they could have done that much better I’d say.

One month’s value in credits does not equal the value of one month’s subscription. They could have done better.

Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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Post by watt »

babaganoosh89 wrote: post #59
matheusmoreira wrote: post #45

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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…

There's a github issue for this: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/42796

That issue now is closed, probably as "not planned".

Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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Post by foofloobar »

Claude Code and the subscription are now less useful than a few months ago. Claude Code and the service seem to pick up more and more issues as time goes by: more bugs, fast quota drain, reduced quota, poor model performance, cache invalidation problems, MCP related bugs, potential model quantization and other problems.

Claude Code was able to implement something in one shot. It was decent for a proof of concept initial implementation. It's barely able to do work now with full specs and detailed plans.

ChatGPT is also being watered down.

It seems obvious that Anthropic and OpenAI aren't the solution to any problem.

Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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Post by travoc »

jrpear wrote: post #243
derangedHorse wrote: post #94

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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…

Even if you take it as true that prices have risen recently, and may continue to rise as the VC subsidies dry up, they will fall again long-term. Inference will get more power efficient with model-on-chip solutions like Taalas and God willing we will get cheaper and cheaper renewable energy. Despite this I don't think engineers should feel threatened. As long as there is a need for a human in the loop, as today, ther…

Increased demand will not drive down energy costs.

Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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Post by 59nadir »

sshine wrote: post #112
rlpb wrote: post #80

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> It's all circumstantial but everything points towards "desperately trying to cut costs". I have been wondering if it's more geared at reducing resource usage, given that at the moment there's a known constraint on AI datacenter expansion capability. Perhaps they are struggling to meet demand?

> Perhaps Anthropic is struggling to meet demand? Yes, definitely, they’re gracefully failing to meet demand. They could also deny new customers, but it would probably be bad for business.

Bad for business and probably unwise for the type of product people will pop their head in to check on, then stop paying and return much later to see whether it's still not much more than a parlor trick for them.

Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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Post by trollbridge »

foofloobar wrote: post #304

Claude Code and the subscription are now less useful than a few months ago. Claude Code and the service seem to pick up more and more issues as time goes by: more bugs, fast quota drain, reduced quota, poor model performance, cache invalidation problems, MCP related bugs, potential model quantization and other problems. Claude Code was able to implement something in one shot. It was decent for a proof of concept init…

I caught up with a friend who said he's really happy with Cursor (currently using the multi-model option where it composes, and reserving use of Opus 4.6 for only when he actually needs the extra power).

Quite interesting considering all the claims that Cursor was dead a few months ago.

Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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Post by indigodaddy »

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…

Is it perhaps not a model problem but a Claude Code harness problem?

For instance on exe.dev VMs with Shelley agent/harness and Opus 4.5/4.6, I haven't noticed any deterioration.

Any similar feedback perhaps from Opencode / GH Copilot subscription-provided Opus models?

Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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Post by shdh »

yukIttEft wrote: post #67
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'm currently "working" on a toy 3d Vulkan Physx thingy. It has a simple raycast vehicle and I'm trying to replace it with the PhysX5 built in one ( https://nvidia-omniverse.github.io/PhysX/physx/5.6.1/docs/Ve... ) I point it to example snippets and webdocumentation but the code it gens won't work at all, not even close Opus4.6 is a tiny bit less wrong than Codex 5.4 xhigh, but still pretty useless. So, after reading…

I’ve noticed the models still can’t complete complex tasks

Such as:

Adding fine curl noise to a volumetric smoke shader

Fixing an issue with entity interpolation in an entity/snapshot netcode

Find some rendering bugs related to lightmaps not loading in particular cases, and it actually introduced this bug.

Just basic stuff.

Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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Post by shdh »

lukan wrote: post #86
yukIttEft wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm currently "working" on a toy 3d Vulkan Physx thingy. It has a simple raycast vehicle and I'm trying to replace it with the PhysX5 built in one ( https://nvidia-omniverse.github.io/PhysX/physx/5.6.1/docs/Ve... ) I point it to example snippets and webdocumentation but the code it gens won't work at all, not even close Opus4.6 is a tiny bit less wrong than Codex 5.4 xhigh, but still pretty useless. So, after reading…

" or if it just can't solve everything yet." Obviously it cannot. But if you give the AI enough hints, clear spec, clear documentation and remove all distracting information, it can solve most problems.

Most simple problems with plenty of prior art, sure
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