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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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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!

Oh no, it will BREAK OUT and send me an email when I’m in the park.

Re: Sonnet 4.6 Elevated Rate of Errors

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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.

They always have the option to stop accepting new customers when their infrastructure is peaked out instead of lowering quality for everyone.

You can't stop accepting new customers unless you're fine with killing your potential future customer base. That's a ridiculous suggestion.

Either your current customers or your potential future customers are going to be unhappy so long as compute resources are finite. Take your pick.

Re: Sonnet 4.6 Elevated Rate of Errors

#43

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 read this on reddit daily ; we have usage monitoring running and collect all stats; we have seen no difference at all. Guess they are split testing or something maybe?

Re: Sonnet 4.6 Elevated Rate of Errors

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The legendary one nine of reliability. Frankly, feels like they should be down to zero nines by now.

I get that they barely have the infrastructure to run their models at scale even when absolutely nothing goes wrong in any of it, but holy shit does it suck to be on the receiving end of that.

Makes me wonder where all the "bubble" talk is even coming from when we have a top 3 provider getting fucked over on every day of the week that ends in Y because of its inability to online compute faster than the inference demand grows.

Re: Sonnet 4.6 Elevated Rate of Errors

#45
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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.

I would try to trim this suspicion with both Occam‘s and Hanlon‘s razor.

Re: Sonnet 4.6 Elevated Rate of Errors

#46

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.

Unless you’re somehow on a different quota system, or maybe using Haiku, there’s no way you can sustain five continuous hours of parallel agents running without hitting the 5h quota limit, even on the 20x max plan. But maybe your company is flagged as VIP or something.

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.

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 ho…

Anthropic bonuses seem to be code for "your usage limits are going down soon."

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.

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. There’s also the fact that they’re known for dogfooding heavily, I imagine that contributes to it a lot.

Those subscription plans are a loss leader. Anthropic would rather have you pay per-token for their API, where they actually make money. By cutting subscription limits, they push people towards using their API. And it's working, there are people spending thousands per month on their API.

Re: Sonnet 4.6 Elevated Rate of Errors

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Good luck jacking prices up too high with new open models flying around daily.
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