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Claude March 2026 usage promotion

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Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion

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Post by bigiain »

cortesoft wrote: post #130
matheusmoreira wrote: post #121

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Would be better if they simply made it free for open source developers. I can barely justify spending time on my hobby projects. If I paid for this, I'd be paying to work for them since they're using our data for training.

How would this work? How would they verify that someone is an “open source developer”?

They could probably fairly easily identify all the authors of the opensource software the hoovered up and used in their training set.

But them even admitting that was possible is a little bit to close to being able to be held accountable...

Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion

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Post by richardw »

rednafi wrote: post #120
richardw wrote: post #113

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I found that when I have “infinite” tokens my behaviour changed. 3-5 tabs so I’m not waiting, free side quests, huge review skills over whole codebase, skills that wrap 10 other skills. It’s like going from expensive data to uncapped. I think these token doubles are there to kick you into a abundance mindset (for want of a better term) so going back feels painful. Stop counting tokens, focus on your project and the c…

I use the enterprise plan for work and often burn ~150$ worth of tokens per day. I have noticed exhibiting similar behaviors here. When you say nearly unlimited token, do you mean the 100 or 200$ subscription?

$200, over December it was doubled. I tried my best in between family time and friends to burn a hole in it. Never got near doing so.

Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion

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Post by matheusmoreira »

Mossly wrote: post #137
cortesoft wrote: post #130

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How would this work? How would they verify that someone is an “open source developer”?

Anthropic is taking applications here: https://claude.com/contact-sales/claude-for-oss

Huh. This is cool. Sadly I'm not big enough to benefit from this. Here's to hoping that changes in the future.

Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion

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Post by richardw »

crashabr wrote: post #127
richardw wrote: post #113

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I found that when I have “infinite” tokens my behaviour changed. 3-5 tabs so I’m not waiting, free side quests, huge review skills over whole codebase, skills that wrap 10 other skills. It’s like going from expensive data to uncapped. I think these token doubles are there to kick you into a abundance mindset (for want of a better term) so going back feels painful. Stop counting tokens, focus on your project and the c…

Is it possible to link/wrap several skills together? I haven't managed to get Claude to react to a reference to another skill within a skill.

I have this as a skill Claude created to run the rest. It mentions each skill in turn, see below. It’s not deterministic but it definitely runs each skill and it’s raised a bunch of issues, which I then selectively deal with. Where I can, once an issue is identified, I make deterministic tests.

Text includes:

Invoke each review/audit skill in sequence. Each skill runs its own comprehensive checks and returns findings. Capture the findings from each and incorporate them into the final report.

IMPORTANT: Invoke each skill using the Skill tool. Each skill is independently runnable and will produce its own detailed output. Summarize findings per skill into the unified report format.

4. Architecture Health

Invoke: Skill(architecture-review)

Covers: module boundaries, cross-module communication, dependency direction, infrastructure layer rules, hexagonal architecture compliance.

5. Security Health

Invoke: Skill(security-review)

Covers: hardcoded secrets, SQL injection, authorization, HTTPS, CORS, input validation, authentication patterns.

Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion

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Post by ac29 »

nemonemo wrote: post #106
Terretta wrote: post #92

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This is how they say Wall St is all using Anthropic without saying Wall St is all using Anthropic. Regular price window around the world: https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/?qm=1&lid=5368361,5128581,316...

Yes, it overlaps well with the market open time. But I thought Claude was good with coding... Does this mean major trading agents write code using Claude to make trading decisions? Or Claude models are relatively better than other models in non-coding trading work?

The US trading day overlaps well with the US business day in general (and to a lesser extent, European demand).

Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion

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Post by sigseg1v »

szatkus wrote: post #85
mavilia wrote: post #67

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I canceled my plan today and wrote my reason as: now that I have a job again I don’t have the time or needs for the pro plan. If there was a $5 a month option, I would gladly take it to make use of Opus for my rare side ideas.

Pay as you go. I never spent more than $10/month working on my side project (usually a few evenings per month).

On my gamedev side project I have a ralph loop going on the $100 5x plan and it caps the session limit 4-5 times a day and hit the weekly limit in 3 days. Token usage is around $750 a week or $3000 a month according to "npx ccusage". I would have to be insane to pay that instead of $100.

Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion

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Post by AussieWog93 »

msephton wrote: post #133
nemonemo wrote: post #107

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Not sure what you mean by "it", but the doubled usage would be 18h a day.

What I mean is that "it" - the advertised window during which the offer applies - is not 5am to 11pm as mentioned by the poster above.

The advertised window is peak time (6h per day). The doubled usage applies off-peak (18h per day).

Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion

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Post by pronik »

An anecdote: for a while now I've noticed or imagined Claude Code becoming ever so slightly dumber around 3-4pm CEST, I've been calling it the "Americans are awake" syndrome, because of assumed higher usage while keeping the latency the same (which is something Anthropic surely keeps an eye on) and thus lower quality.

Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion

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Post by sevenseacat »

pronik wrote: post #149

An anecdote: for a while now I've noticed or imagined Claude Code becoming ever so slightly dumber around 3-4pm CEST, I've been calling it the "Americans are awake" syndrome, because of assumed higher usage while keeping the latency the same (which is something Anthropic surely keeps an eye on) and thus lower quality.

Haha I've been seeing the same thing late in the evening (Australian time), which I attributed to the same reason.
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