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Re: HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing

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Maybe it’s in order to have an external provider to blame for failures and shift the blame/responsibility?

A less cynical explanation is that it helps decouple product failures from support failures. Last thing you want is for your customer support to break whenever your product breaks.

That makes good sense

Re: HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing

#252

Another slop coded piece of shit causing stupid bugs. I can’t believe they paid 100m for some of these employees. They could have bought entire companies of real developers.

Oh, no it was absolutely on purpose. Why else you'd have code that looks for a certain string in commit and does the reroute ?

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> I don't like it, but can't do much about it. Is the culture really such that you can't escalate an obvious, fairly minor mistake that is turning into disastrous PR? That would explain a lot of recent Anthropic takes actually.

Tech companies have too many layers for anything to happen. This is partly by design to slow down this exact thing.

Not all tech companies are like this, though too many are.

Re: HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing

#254
I purchased a 12-month subscription for my partner, and Anthropic never delivered the gift to their email, only sent me an invoice.

No response from customer service.. only their AI Agent Support.. Which has still not offered me a refund.

I may have to do a chargeback.

Re: HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing

#255

https://x.com/trq212/status/2048495545375990245 He is getting a refund along with an additional $200 credit from what I can see.

After going public and getting publicity. You shouldn't have to do that just to get a company to fix their own mistake. They stole $200, where do they get off saying they won't give it back?

The tweet is from 3 days ago and the bug report 4 days ago. Not sure if it was publicity that made it happen or not.

Re: HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing

#256

If Mythos is so smart, how come Anthropic does dumb shit like this every week?

I'm not sure (I'm not in Anthropic, I'm not related to them, I'm just guessing), but I think that humans that worked on so-called "Mythos" (I'm sorry but I'm taking this one with a pinch of salt) and humans who work on/responsible for Claude Code, API and similar features are different humans. Completely different.

Re: HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing

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They saw how Google providing absolutely terrible customer service for a very long time has done nothing to hurt their bottom line and decided to copy.

Unsure how true that is. Google cloud is tiny compared to aws for a reason. It matters. People will switch if you piss them off.

Google's lack of customer service isn't new or limited to GCP. They also don't provide any human help if you're an advertiser with them unless you spend a crazy amount of money. Twenty years ago I used to spend upwards of $20-30k a month with them and I couldn't get a single reply to any inquiry I ever sent.

If you spend $XXX million / year with them on GCP they will, however, assign a person to be your main point of contact.

Re: HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing

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After going public and getting publicity. You shouldn't have to do that just to get a company to fix their own mistake. They stole $200, where do they get off saying they won't give it back?

The tweet is from 3 days ago and the bug report 4 days ago. Not sure if it was publicity that made it happen or not.

I know HN has a lot of devs, but I'm pretty sure none of us are going straight to Github to file for a refund from a bug. I'm assuming they notified customer service first and were rebuffed, then filed the bug.

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#260
Waiting for customer service to make a comeback. It seems like SaaS is an infinite see of shitty chatbots doing a whole lot of brand damage. Basically for any service that I use, whenever I am forced to interact with a chatbot, that company takes a critical hit to its reputation going forward because the interaction is never anything but enraging.
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