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100%. Claude is, I'm sorry to say, basically nerfed. I downgraded from Max to Pro this month and will cancel my subscription next month. I would suggest others who feel similarly do the same. The only way to signal to to these companies that this model enshittification cycle is unacceptable is to vote with your feet.
All vendors are under the same sort of pressure. What you've experienced is likely to be duplicated elsewhere.
My use case is having Claude tear through an extremely complex Kubernetes setup, reviewing code and drafting plans.
Despite the near-instant answers, it still manages to do this effectively at a speed I can't even hope to keep up with as a human. It's reconciling concerns that easily span dozens of dimensions with each problem I give it.
The trade-off here is that you sometimes see the model make subtle errors in thinking, but they're easily recognized and corrected for when called out. I've also noticed the model will make a statement and then correct itself mid-stream, which sometimes muddles my job of reviewing its output.
Compared to competing top-tier models taking anywhere from 5-40 minutes for a sometimes impeccably-reasoned answer, there's no comparison velocity-wise. The real win is the speed at which Claude troubleshoots, though. Near-instant turns really wins here.
It's tempting to directly assume speed is proportional to quality, but we really don't know what's going on at any given provider's back-end serving configuration, nor the internal model routing configuration.
I was working really well, so I paid a yearly subscription. Two weeks later, it got to a point where I wouldn't pay for it if I had a choice. I wonder if the business model is: "make it great, get people to pay yearly subscriptions, and then make it bad again". At least I won't make that mistake ever again, it proved that such services cannot be trusted. I'll only pay for monthly subscriptions in the future, so that…
100%. Claude is, I'm sorry to say, basically nerfed. I downgraded from Max to Pro this month and will cancel my subscription next month. I would suggest others who feel similarly do the same. The only way to signal to to these companies that this model enshittification cycle is unacceptable is to vote with your feet.
vote with your feet. All vendors are under the same sort of pressure. What you've experienced is likely to be duplicated elsewhere.
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vote with your feet. All vendors are under the same sort of pressure. What you've experienced is likely to be duplicated elsewhere.
That's already true.. Every time a new "benchmark-leading" model is released from anyone, they give it maximum resources for a week or two, then drop the performance. The point is no-one can reliably use these already unreliable and inconsistent tools when the vendors are making it worse by fiddling in the backend. Claude went from useful to near useless for me in a week, with no otherwise visible change. The produce…
Do you feel lucky?
I was working really well, so I paid a yearly subscription. Two weeks later, it got to a point where I wouldn't pay for it if I had a choice. I wonder if the business model is: "make it great, get people to pay yearly subscriptions, and then make it bad again". At least I won't make that mistake ever again, it proved that such services cannot be trusted. I'll only pay for monthly subscriptions in the future, so that…
"make it great, get people to pay yearly subscriptions, and then make it bad again" . This is called "bait and switch".
Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's already true.. Every time a new "benchmark-leading" model is released from anyone, they give it maximum resources for a week or two, then drop the performance. The point is no-one can reliably use these already unreliable and inconsistent tools when the vendors are making it worse by fiddling in the backend. Claude went from useful to near useless for me in a week, with no otherwise visible change. The produce…
Bottom line: There is nothing deterministic about AI itself or the vendors promoting it. Everything is subject to the vendor's whim. Do you feel lucky?
the nondeterminism is still in the model but the world of FOMO-driven uncertainty fades away.
you still get to fill in as ace coder whenver theres gaps in its capabilities and upgrade when you want.
live on your cycle, not VCs