Anthropic is burning more and more dev goodwill • Hacker News Board

Re: Anthropic is burning more and more dev goodwill

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Post by Ferret7446 » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 4:59 AM UTC

schmookeeg wrote: post #19

WaryByDesign wrote: post #5

I have truly no idea what this is all about. OAuth login issues aside (which have been a thing on-and-off for a while now, and I hope they fix soon), Claude's performance and responses have been entirely stable for me for like, forever.

Same for me. I have been max200 for like 10 months, i think my usage is reasonable, and i never seem to get the quality throttling that gets complaints daily. I assume they are targeting certain piggies at the Claude buffet, who then squeal the loudest.

As far as I can tell, the people affected are primarily those using their Claude code tokens for openclaw or similar and burning as many tokens as possible

Re: Anthropic is burning more and more dev goodwill

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Post by ikidd » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 5:20 AM UTC

rurban wrote: post #25

See https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/42796

Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660925

Re: Anthropic is burning more and more dev goodwill

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Post by ikidd » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 5:22 AM UTC

Ferret7446 wrote: post #31

schmookeeg wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same for me. I have been max200 for like 10 months, i think my usage is reasonable, and i never seem to get the quality throttling that gets complaints daily. I assume they are targeting certain piggies at the Claude buffet, who then squeal the loudest.

As far as I can tell, the people affected are primarily those using their Claude code tokens for openclaw or similar and burning as many tokens as possible

Go read https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/42796

This isn't a OC yahoo.

Re: Anthropic is burning more and more dev goodwill

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Post by gherkinnn » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 6:52 AM UTC

drakythe wrote: post #4

tl;dr: Dude thinks Anthropic is making claude worse on purpose to cut down on GPU usage and/or increase income. He recommends using Codex instead. This video should have been a text tweet. I'm 3 minutes in and he has done an ad read and shown that Anthropic wasn't kidding about removing the ability for Claude to be used with OpenClaw without paying for additional usage. And now he says he's going into his _actual_ pr…

This Theo can be safely ignored. He built his audience shilling for Next.js in hour long roundabout videos and now seemingly moved on to doing the same for whatever else is happening. A tech influencer.

Re: Anthropic is burning more and more dev goodwill

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Post by infecto » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 5:28 PM UTC

AlotOfReading wrote: post #26

infecto wrote: post #14

Is Claude code really refusing to do none coding tasks because thats not my experience even as of today and I would have expected those tokens are being accounted for the same way as a Claude.ai chat. Seems like all of this is gripes over blocking openclaw which I just cannot take seriously.

Earlier today I had an agent refuse to integrate a proprietary library until I reassured it there was a signed license agreement with the authors. Otherwise it threatened to "escalate this session to the legal department". First time I've seen prompt injection by header copyright warnings.

I don’t think alignment hiccups are the same as it refusing to do non-coding tasks. Both are refusals but different reasoning. I have yet to see Claude code complain about noncoding tasks and I am willing to bet the majority of complaints here are because of openclaw.