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Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?

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Re: Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?

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Anthropic’s “Head of Growth” claims this is a “test”: https://x.com/TheAmolAvasare/status/2046724659039932830 This does not explain the changes to documentation.

I am confused, how is this a test? So some users get Claude Code while others don’t, when they are both paying 20 dollars … ? Wat

Re: Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?

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post #322

I would love someone to play devil's advocate against this perspective: While these tools stand to enable the democratization of productive capability in software engineering and other tasks (creating a renaissance for solopreneurs, let's say), what seems more likely to actually happen is that entrenched capital will become the only player with real access to this "knowledge as a utility" (was it Altman who called it…

Not only because of cost. Mythos has only been released to some of the big tech players because it's "too dangerous" [0] for us little people.

It's easy to see this becoming a permanent position; the latest models and smarts are reserved for establishment members only, the riff-raff get the cast-offs. So the establishment is preserved and the status quo protected.

[0] I'm putting scare/irony quotes around this, but if the reporting is accurate, there is something to this; we built the internet on string and duct tape, it's not hard to see how a very smart AI could cut it to ribbons.

Re: Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?

#353
The last couple of weeks using Claude has been…interesting to say the least.

Additionally I run a constant hacking contest between GPT and Claude. It’s a toy project and it simulates an attack/defense of a small corporate network.

Claude used to win pretty handily. Suddenly it’s started to lose 90% of the time. I thought GPT had gotten better but no, looking at the logs it seems that Claude is slower and more prone to running in circles. This is still the case when switching to Opus 4.7.

I don’t know what that means but it’s undoubtedly worse.

Re: Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?

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post #242

https://x.com/TheAmolAvasare/status/2046724846604963924 (Head of Growth @AnthropicAI) > When we launched Max a year ago, it didn't include Claude Code, Cowork didn't exist, and agents that run for hours weren't a thing. Max was designed for heavy chat usage, that's it. Is there a wager that this is 100% foreshadowing Claude Code will be removed from the $100-200/month Max plans soon and go to something like API-only?…

That would be a fantastic way to kill the majority of engagement with the community of users. There are very few who can afford that.

Re: Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?

#355

I use it on Pro and was just thinking today, there is no way $20 covers the cost of it. But I'm long term unemployed and can't afford any higher tier, so if they drop it guess I'll have to find a non-anthropic solution somehow.

What do you mean "somehow"? There are plenty of alternatives in the market.

Re: Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?

#357

With GitHub and Anthropic reducing subscription features, Chinese providers are looking more and more tempting.

Until you work for a company or government agency that is subject to any sort of technology audit. The moment offshore processes running in China comes up you'll have a never ending hole of questions to answer.

Re: Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?

#359

Anthropic’s “Head of Growth” claims this is a “test”: https://x.com/TheAmolAvasare/status/2046724659039932830 This does not explain the changes to documentation.

I am confused, how is this a test? So some users get Claude Code while others don’t, when they are both paying 20 dollars … ? Wat

It's a test on sign ups, not on users, so "will they sign up without X feature for the same price" yes

Re: Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?

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post #294

Claude has become practically unusable for Pro users in the past few days. The Opus 4.7 blew through an entire 5 hour limit in one question and didn’t even finish answering it. Zero value delivered. Opus 4.6 is giving 2, maybe 3 questions before blowing through the Pro 5 hour limit as well. We are forced to use Sonnet which makes the same mistakes over and over and then to start trying with other companies. To make m…

> Claude has become practically unusable for Pro users in the past few days. The Opus 4.7 blew through an entire 5 hour limit in one question and didn’t even finish answering it

Glad I’m not the only one!

I’ve been limited so often this week I’ve setup half a dozen token compression tools in my workflow and had to do a crash course in token optimization.

Of course, it seems to only slightly delay the inevitable and doesn’t really solve the problem.

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