Claude Code Removed from $20-a-Month "Pro" Subscription for New Users

Post by mingus88 » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 1:35 AM UTC

jazz9k wrote: post #5

wasabinator wrote: post #4

This should be a warning to those who feel that it's ok to offload your creativity to a subscription service. Always need a local model in some form.

The 'local model' is called your brain.

Post by jasonjmcghee » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 1:52 AM UTC

Incipient wrote: post #12

jasonjmcghee wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People will insist otherwise, but I haven't seen anything close to sonnet 4.6 that can be run locally.

I don't think anyone can honestly say a huge frontier model is actually going to be matched by something running on 64gb locally?

Post by adithyassekhar » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 2:08 AM UTC

mingus88 wrote: post #11

jazz9k wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The 'local model' is called your brain.

I’m sorry but that’s just dumb. An LLM is a tool. Your brain is not a substitute for an LLM in the same way your fingers are not a substitute for a wrench. The year is 2026 and if you are using your brain on chore work like one-off scripts, refactoring, boilerplate test code, then you are wasting time and money and I don’t want to work with you. Local models are fine for this and can do it in a fraction of the time y…

Post by glimshe » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 2:36 AM UTC

avaer wrote: post #6

wasabinator wrote: post #4

This should be a warning to those who feel that it's ok to offload your creativity to a subscription service. Always need a local model in some form.

You could judge the costs of the AI products you're using by the standard API pricing, not promotional subscription offers.

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 3:03 AM UTC

ChrisArchitect wrote: post #18

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854477