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Re: Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses

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Post by epistasis » Sat, May 23, 2026, 2:46 PM UTC

siva7 wrote: post #304

fendy3002 wrote: post #196

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Stay with 4.6 if you can, it is disabled (afaik) on vscode claude code extension. 4.7 IMO is around 10-20% worse at understanding your prompt intention. You need more effort to explain your intention clearer so it doesn't divert.

Same. 4.7 intelligence is significantly worse than 4.6 on ALL 3P Harnesses. So only on Claude Code and Anthropic API/Subscription you get decent performance but on every other Harness and/or Cloud Provider inference (Bedrock) it performs worse than 4.6 on almost every task. This is not just anecdotal, i've talked to many colleagues from AWS, Microsoft and so on and they all agree that something fishy is going on.

I switched back to even Sonnet 4.6 in Claude Code over Opus 4.7. Every day or two I try a new task on Opus 4.7 and regret it.

Looking now I see that "Opus 4.6 Legacy" is an option that was not there before, so maybe Anthropic noticed that others are having the same difficulty.

Re: Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses

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Post by shomp » Sat, May 23, 2026, 2:48 PM UTC

cdurth wrote: post #320

chantepierre wrote: post #163

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I felt that but find it worked way better by invoking it with `claude --effort max` only

Yup I run Max only now. It's closer to the "old" Claude but still nerfed in my opinion.

My "mental scratchpad" needs to be as sharp as possible to maximize my intelligence. I think of the LLM as a scratchpad for my thinking, I hope the Anthropic team can see this.

Re: Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses

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Post by loloquwowndueo » Sat, May 23, 2026, 2:48 PM UTC

Reminds me of when Steve Ballmer forbade his children to use iPods and pushed towards the Zune instead. Hahaha

Re: Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses

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Post by lumost » Sat, May 23, 2026, 2:55 PM UTC

harimau777 wrote: post #266

The comments I see recommending selective use of cheaper models doesn't match the reality I experience working in the industry. I have the constant threat hanging over my head of being fired if I don't churn out code quickly enough. I'm not willing to gamble with my livelyhood by using a less effective model. Saving money on tokens isn't something that's rewarded during performance reviews; particularly because it's…

This, I happily used the opus 4.6 fast mode to the tune of 5k for a project. The delivery of the project justified the 5k, if I only spent 500 but delivered the project 1 month later - I would have been in the dog house.

Re: Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses

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Post by onlyrealcuzzo » Sat, May 23, 2026, 2:56 PM UTC

shomp wrote: post #350

onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #93

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I rage canceled Claude today. After 2 weeks of Claude getting progressively worse and worse, today was the final straw. I don't care if they have a phone app. The model is COMPLETE garbage after you subscribe long enough and they think they've "got you". I can't code on my phone if the model literally moves in the wrong direction and does the opposite of what I tell it to. If I wanted to make my code worse, I'd just…

When you say "code on your phone" ... you don't mean what I think you mean do you? Like, are you actually using your phone to make code commits?

Yes, you can do that with Claude Code.

Tell it what to do.

Commit, push to origin, review on GitHub.

Tell it to make changes, amend the commit, push --force-with-lease.

I'm attempting to make a memory safe language like Rust but with a substantially lower learning curve and added safety (but non-zero cost abstractions) fully with AI, almost entirely from my phone, commuting, getting coffee, walking the dog, between sets at the gym, replacing doom scrolling before bed and during lunch, etc.

Mostly to test how much LLMs can actually scale development.

Depending on how long it takes them to clean up some architectural slop in the MIR lowering phase, the results could either be very impressive or not.

From a purely cost basis perspective, it's hard to argue they aren't killing it.

But from a multiplier perspective, it's up in the air how great they are.

It's proven to be a really nice experiment, because much of what I wanted to solve with a language is the problems inherent to LLM development.

So at the self hosting phase, I get a great opportunity to see if the language can actually deliver on what I dream for.

Re: Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses

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Post by seabrookmx » Sat, May 23, 2026, 2:56 PM UTC

kridsdale1 wrote: post #68

proxysna wrote: post #25

Feels about right. I've launched an internal demo of Claude Code and Deepseek on the same day and we burned through our monthly allowance for Claude in just over a week, with more than a half of that budget being spent in one day. With DS people are unable to go through that same amount of money in a month, not even close. With that Claude feels like an expensive toy, while DS is a shovel, purely because developers d…

Considered Gemini?

Google rug pulled Code Assist and Gemini CLI. They're moving everything to Antigravity and we would need to reinstall all our tooling, reconfigure any automations, and the mechanism to subscribe via GCP is much clunkier.

This was all supposed to be worked out prior to Cloud Next, but it wasn't. Ironically, they mentioned Claude in a few of their presentations at next.

And that was our solution. We are a big GCP customer but our whole team is on Claude now and much happier.

Re: Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses

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Post by throwaway85825 » Sat, May 23, 2026, 2:56 PM UTC

ac29 wrote: post #333

mschuster91 wrote: post #295

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Where to, that's the question. The economy is in the gutters and the replace-people-with-AI craze is making the issue even worse.

> The economy is in the gutters Consumer sentiment is in the gutters certainly. But objective measures of the economy like unemployment and real wages look good to excellent https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q

It's easy when you can just lie. The data from phone surveys is increasingly divergent from the delayed payroll data.

Re: Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses

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Post by vips7L » Sat, May 23, 2026, 3:00 PM UTC

Insanity wrote: post #335

some-guy wrote: post #331

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I don’t disagree that the expectations are higher, but token output hardly correlates to code output worthy of merging.

Code quality matters to engineers. Find a senior manager who cares. Or worse, find a customer who cares. While they obviously want a high quality product, no outages, a responsive system etc, I don’t think they necessarily understand why you need to avoid creating god-objects, need to reason about abstractions, etc.

Code quality directly correlates to everything you describe.

Re: Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses

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Post by bakies » Sat, May 23, 2026, 3:00 PM UTC

tags2k wrote: post #172

cfunderburg wrote: post #161

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I wish I could understand the appeal of using Claude Code inside VScode rather than Copilot. I feel like I'm missing something obvious.

I'm with you there. I can't stand the CLI that wants to take you away from the mostly bad code it writes. Give me the structure, let me finesse it - to do that I need to actually see it no matter how much Anthropic pretends that it's perfect.

I just have git diff open in another terminal. Everything I do is in the terminal.

Re: Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses

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Post by vips7L » Sat, May 23, 2026, 3:02 PM UTC

some-guy wrote: post #331

ninkendo wrote: post #318

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If you’re sitting under a tree in the rain and it gets soaked through and you start getting wet, finding another tree won’t help you. The whole industry is adjusting to the reality that the expected output of an engineer is much higher than it used to be. It’s not local to one company. You may find a better environment for the time being, but this is the direction everything is headed.

I don’t disagree that the expectations are higher, but token output hardly correlates to code output worthy of merging.

It doesn’t necessarily mean shipping faster either. Speeding up code production doesn’t mean it speeds up qa, compliance, and the litany of other things. Everyone seems to forget Amdahl’s law.