These promos should be based on when more renewable energy is available for inference not when less people are likely to be using the AI. We need to adjust usage to when supply is more renewable for both training and inference in order to better protect our grid and the planet.
Claude March 2026 usage promotion
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Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion
#32Long ago in the ancient days of punchcards and IBM mainframes, you’d write your programs during the day, then submit them to run overnight and pick up your results in the morning. It would be funny and sort of romantic if time-based LLM pricing returned us to that: write your specs all day, run agents on them overnight, check out the results in the morning.
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That sounds to me similar to "Telegram banned by Russian government", more of a seal of approval than anything.
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#34Dear line manager, I will be taking a very long lunch 12-6pm in London's Chinatown then heading back to the office half cut to vibe code
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#35So afternoon in Germany or am I misreading?
DST shenanigans aside (we're in the "US has changed but Europe hasn't" window), 10:00 in SF is 18:00 in London. Meaning their peak time window is 13:00–19:00 London time, or 14:00–20:00 Berlin time. So us European folks get promotional rates during the morning and evening. EDIT: Actually, because the promo ends at the end of March, it'll all be within DST shenanigans. So peak times are 12:00–18:00 London, 13:00–19:00…
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think they're feeling the heat from growing too quickly so they want to incentivize people to spread the load more evenly.
Very much like electric utility time of day pricing, using economic incentives to shift demand to trough periods. Perhaps an opportunity for them to improve workload scheduling orchestration, like submitting a job to a distributed computing cluster queue, to smooth demand and maximize utilization.
Everything bursty will use economic incentives to smooth the load. I'm not sure how they'd do that with workload scheduling orchestration when you have latency-sensitive loads and there are e.g. twice as many requests at midday as at midnight.
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#37I just know there has to be some psychology in play with these promos. The promo during December got me to upgrade to the $100 plan, and I know I'm not the only one.
The psychology is to hook you on the usage. A lot of people see a little movement in the usage meter and get cold feet about heavy usage. The prior $70 credit deal and now this offering are to try to get people to dive in, and hopefully retain that usage pattern afterwards.
Anthropic's models are obviously superior at coding right now but using 2-3 $20 accounts between different providers is still a very effective way to get good value. Gemini CLI and Codex seem to be at least 2x more permissive on usage. The models are good enough.
Plus we are technologists, we want to try out different stuff and compare.
Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion
#38Ah crap I was hoping to benefit more of my sub because I'm in an off-hours tz.
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#40I still hate Claude for turning down limits. I use z.ai in Claude code now, haven't hit the limit yet.