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Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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Post by infecto »

Dylan16807 wrote: post #440
infecto wrote: post #439

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are standing on top of an ant hill and I still don’t fully understand your position. The original post was about the premium service Anthropic plans. There is no such thing, you are simply paying for more tokens. Hope that helps.

Any $200/month AI plan is premium. Hope that helps.

I know why I typically don’t respond to your posts. So much said and I am still not sure your point. You have ignored the original point and gone off on a tangent.

It is not a premium service that deserves special care which was what the original commenter stated. It is a $200 account that buys you $400+ on tokens.

Hope that helps recenter this weird path we are following. :)

Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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Post by Dylan16807 »

infecto wrote: post #441
Dylan16807 wrote: post #440

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any $200/month AI plan is premium. Hope that helps.

I know why I typically don’t respond to your posts. So much said and I am still not sure your point. You have ignored the original point and gone off on a tangent. It is not a premium service that deserves special care which was what the original commenter stated. It is a $200 account that buys you $400+ on tokens. Hope that helps recenter this weird path we are following. :)

> gone off on a tangent

What? What I just said was my one and only point from the very beginning. The price is so much higher than the median that that makes it premium and deserving of some special care.

I understand your point of view here, and it's fine if you disagree with mine but it's weird if you don't at least understand my point by now. You saying my last comment is a tangent suggests you don't understand me. But it's a simple point and I'm not sure how to make it clearer.

Does that help recenter?

Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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Post by sshine »

ayewo wrote: post #330
leesalminen wrote: post #226

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I once decided to deny new customers in order to be able to service current demand at the quality we wanted. It backfired and made people want our product even more. Our phones were blowing up. That approach can have unintended consequences!

Another knob you could have turned is: raise prices. Did you try this?

Anthropic is already doing this.

Signup prices seem higher now than three months ago.

This is actually the least frustrating method because people who can't afford to pay are not as angry as people who paid and aren't getting served (like when sign-in emails don't arrive for hours or days), or people who have paid for a long time to suddenly see quality decrease.

But it might not be best for business: Having more users than you can handle might suck, but if you're popular enough, people are still gonna put up with it.

Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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Post by HighGoldstein »

MuffinFlavored wrote: post #207
rlpb wrote: post #80

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> It's all circumstantial but everything points towards "desperately trying to cut costs". I have been wondering if it's more geared at reducing resource usage, given that at the moment there's a known constraint on AI datacenter expansion capability. Perhaps they are struggling to meet demand?

I wish they would just rip the bandaid to stop everybody's entitled whining. "We're sorry, what we were able to give you for $100/mo before now needs to be $200/mo (or more). We miscalculated/we were too generous/gave too much away for too little. It's a new technology, we are seeing a ton of demand, we are trying to run a business, hope you understand. If you don't want it, don't pay for it."

> "We're sorry, what we were able to give you for $100/mo before now needs to be $200/mo (or more). We miscalculated/we were too generous/gave too much away for too little. It's a new technology, we are seeing a ton of demand, we are trying to run a business, hope you understand. If you don't want it, don't pay for it."

Anthropic's thing has always been that they are perceived as slightly ahead of the competition, if they 2X their pricing then the competition that used to be "slightly worse" suddenly becomes an absolute bargain and guts their user base.

Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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Post by FireBeyond »

alphabettsy wrote: post #411
FireBeyond wrote: post #373

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Yeah, shorter time frame but I've been noticing that too. Just the other day I was experimenting with some workflow stuff. "Do x and y and run tests and then merge into develop." Duly runs, and finishes. "All merged into develop". I do some other work, don't see any of this, double check myself, I'm working off of develop. "Hey, where is this work?" "It is in this branch and this worktree, as you would expect, you wi…

Prompt cache expired?

Perhaps, but I also don't see how a prompt cache miss or expiry should result in Claude stating affirmatively that it did something that it did not.

Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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Post by sysid »

kingkongjaffa wrote: post #40
jakobnissen wrote: post #23

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Yeah I’ve seen this too. It’s difficult for me to tell if the complaints are due to a legitimate undisclosed nerf of Claude, or whether it’s just the initial awe of Opus 4.6 fading and people increasingly noticing its mistakes.

Just one more anecdote: I'm on the enterprise team plan so a decent amount of usage. In March I could use Opus all day and it was getting great results. Since the last week of March and into April, I've had sessions where I maxed out session usage under 2 hours and it got stuck in overthinking loops, multiple turns of realising the same thing, dozens of paragraphs of "But wait, actually I need to do x" with slight va…

Same experience, here. Very hard to base on facts, because every problem and prompt is an individual use-case and measuring agent reasoning quality is notoriously difficult anyway. But I spend a lot of time with Claude and my overall "feeling" fully matches your description. Quality has deteriorated, thinking takes longer and results become shallow. Something is off...

Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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Post by motbus3 »

bigyabai wrote: post #214
motbus3 wrote: post #211

The TOS basically states you need to deal with whatever they want. Meanwhile their 'best' competitor just announced they want to provide unreliable mass destruction guidance tools but they don't wanna feel said. Honestly speaking, we are wrong whenever we do business with this sort of people

> The TOS basically states you need to deal with whatever they want. FWIW that's what most TOSes say for the majority of online services. Some even include arbitration clauses to prevent civil suits and class-action cases.

Maybe that's standard practice in the US. I live in Europe but have family elsewhere, in both places, such clauses are often disregarded by judges and illegal.

What judges say is that whatever is problematic should be dealt by customer support.

For example, provider X is faulty and causes damages to you or a third party. You contact the company and the company must have a procedure to give a formal answer when required.

If that's is breach of the contact, although not required by law, the company can offer to fix the problem or at least an explanation and why is that in the contract.

If you still feel that's a breach of the contract and the company is not willing to cooperate, then you can file it.

In other places, there are laws that cannot be undermined by forceful terms of service or contracts. For example, you have the right for law anywhere.

I more or less understand the whys of why US is like that, but it feels that the law is bendable.

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