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Sonnet 4.6 Elevated Rate of Errors

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Re: Sonnet 4.6 Elevated Rate of Errors

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As long as everyone is here, have you seen the token usage just go up remarkably recently for the $100 plan? it lasts a lot less time than it used to recently. Might be related to recent releases of claude.

No, in fact I'm growing increasingly suspicious of messages I see like this all over the socials.

I am using Claude constantly, multiple agents, around 8-10hrs a day, 5 or 6 days a week, and I'm never anywhere need my limit.

Re: Sonnet 4.6 Elevated Rate of Errors

#33

As long as everyone is here, have you seen the token usage just go up remarkably recently for the $100 plan? it lasts a lot less time than it used to recently. Might be related to recent releases of claude.

I'm on the max 20 plan, and yes, it's the same for me. The week before last it used to last all week for me, but now it's Wednesday and it's already at 40% usage.

Re: Sonnet 4.6 Elevated Rate of Errors

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post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> They’re asking for $100+/mo for the plans that are actually usable at scale. If I’m paying that much I have very high expectations. If you think $100 is that much and get very high expectations from it, you're not the target customer. You're a loss leader to Anthropic, and the fact that you don't see that / still have high expectations means your expectations are unrealistic.

$100/m for SaaS is very steep. For an entire productivity suite including mail, meetings and terabytes of backed up redundant storage with nearly no bandwidth limitations it's like $35/m for even the most expensive option.

Those products have very low COGS in comparison to this.

Re: Sonnet 4.6 Elevated Rate of Errors

#35

As long as everyone is here, have you seen the token usage just go up remarkably recently for the $100 plan? it lasts a lot less time than it used to recently. Might be related to recent releases of claude.

Yes, it’s extremely obvious. The recent “we give you $100/$200 extra credit for a month” is clearly just “you’re supposed to pay extra for the same usage from the now on” dressed up as a “bonus”, just like giving “bonus” usage off-peak before announcing faster burn rate during peak a short while ago.

And the recent “Investigating usage limits hitting faster than expected” [1] is probably them intentionally gauging how much they can push it without too much of an uproar.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1s7zgj0/investiga...

Re: Sonnet 4.6 Elevated Rate of Errors

#36

Ever since they minted their deal with Australia everything has been turned upside down.

I'd say it was when OpenAI had a mass exodus due to them making a deal with the Department of War (which they then backtracked on [1]). This started the QuitGPT movement [2].

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3rz1nd0egro

[2] https://quitgpt.org/

Re: Sonnet 4.6 Elevated Rate of Errors

#37

As long as everyone is here, have you seen the token usage just go up remarkably recently for the $100 plan? it lasts a lot less time than it used to recently. Might be related to recent releases of claude.

I'm on the basic £18/month plan and with Sonnet 4.6 I literally get 20 maybe 30 minutes of use out of it per day. It's borderline useless now. I was using it for some Home Assistant changes yesterday and it used up my entire daily allowance after 8 prompts.

I guess 2026 is the last year AI is widely available to anyone who isn't willing to shell out hundreds if not thousands for a monthly subscription. I guess all that's left is to thank all the investors for the free ride LOL

Re: Sonnet 4.6 Elevated Rate of Errors

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post #4

Apparently mythos isn't good enough to fix their infra problems

It’s just so POWERFUL and DANGEROUS that its very aura disrupts the weaker models.

Be careful, MYTHOS might be reading your comment directly from their janitor's iPhone RAM right now. You do not want to upset such a powerful entity!

Re: Sonnet 4.6 Elevated Rate of Errors

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post #8

A bit surprised by the snarky comments here -- I also want Claude to work reliably but very few (no?) companies have ever seen this level of rapid growth. We're going to go through a long fail-whale-style period and I can imagine very, very few companies that could avoid that.

When the narrative around AI is that people should rely on it all the time, people will be judged by your token use (it better be high), the AI is smarter than everyone and will take all the jobs, the AI is the best programmer, and more… When things fail repeatedly, it highlights that the emperor has no clothes.

If it’s as good as they say, why can’t it figure out how to not go down every day?

How can people rely on it for their job if it goes down everyday? Maybe they shouldn’t rely on it.

If it’s supposed to be such a good engineer, why should it have the same scaling issues as Twitter did 20 years ago with 20 years of lessons learned and 20 years of development for more modern and scalable infrastructures? Shouldn’t it know all the tricks to scale and have redundancy to keep availability high? Does it not know the demands?

When expectations are out of line with reality, there will be snark when things fail. Those expectations have been force fed to us by these AI companies for years now, so I don’t have much sympathy or patience to offer them. They created these expectations of their platforms and if they can’t live up to them, then maybe it’s time for recalibrate the public image of what AI really is and what it can do… and what its limitations are.

Re: Sonnet 4.6 Elevated Rate of Errors

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As long as everyone is here, have you seen the token usage just go up remarkably recently for the $100 plan? it lasts a lot less time than it used to recently. Might be related to recent releases of claude.

No, in fact I'm growing increasingly suspicious of messages I see like this all over the socials. I am using Claude constantly, multiple agents, around 8-10hrs a day, 5 or 6 days a week, and I'm never anywhere need my limit.

I suspect Anthropic flags accounts in their backend and different people are getting different limits. What criteria they flag with, I am not sure.
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