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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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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…

So true, we’re constantly told that we’re now obsolete, a magic robot can do everything we can do without sleeping and for a fraction of the cost. Except occasionally the robot just doesn’t turn up to work or occasionally he appears drunk on the job. The elites think it’s fine now while it’s cheap but just wait until the agents are priced properly and cost 5x or 10x more.

Suddenly the fleshy meat sacks who used to do all this work, just slower, who have persistent memory, who get better and more experienced over time, who only require a few bananas to power their brains start looking like the more reliable option again.

The only reason these chat bots exist is because the upper crust don’t want to pay us to live properly, not because the robots can do it better, they just want to pay as little as possible.

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.

>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. Their main competitor OpenAI has much better uptime and more generous usage limits.

Exactly this. OpenAI is running huge workloads silently, without anybody patting their back.

Re: Sonnet 4.6 Elevated Rate of Errors

#64

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.

Like any company they will squeeze the usage as much as they possibly can. There is not a little chance that prices can be 1k+ so only enterprises can allow coding subs.Those who have ROI will pay for it.

Current phase of usage/pricing is just testing the waters. Especially considering they are the market leader in this category.

Re: Sonnet 4.6 Elevated Rate of Errors

#65

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

> 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. They’re losing money on you at that price point. Or more precisely you’re paying for it by giving them training data.

I'm not convinced, Kimi 2.5, GLM 5.1, Minimax M2.7 are all fraction of the price and still make money on inference.

Re: Sonnet 4.6 Elevated Rate of Errors

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

It's a lack of compute. Anthropic is growing double digit % every month, and they're growing faster than they can acquire compute resources.

Plus, they do not want to overbuild computer, like what OpenAI is doing.

Re: Sonnet 4.6 Elevated Rate of Errors

#67

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.

Yeah, the change has been very noticeable imo.

Did you already try tools that can help to reduce token usage cost so you can get more prompts in within your same plan? Some great ones are

https://github.com/gglucass/headroom-desktop

https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk

https://github.com/chopratejas/headroom

https://github.com/samuelfaj/distill

Re: Sonnet 4.6 Elevated Rate of Errors

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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

Hard to square that with how good open-weights models are getting? I'm doing stuff with Qwen3.5-4b that required a frontier hosted model less than a year ago.

the problem is you're still a year behind with this approach and it isn't at all clear locally hosted models can keep the gap. need more turboquant-like algorithmic boosts for this to happen.

Re: Sonnet 4.6 Elevated Rate of Errors

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

good luck getting mythos/spud quality models open

Re: Sonnet 4.6 Elevated Rate of Errors

#70

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.

Yeah, the change has been very noticeable imo. Did you already try tools that can help to reduce token usage cost so you can get more prompts in within your same plan? Some great ones are https://github.com/gglucass/headroom-desktop https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk https://github.com/chopratejas/headroom https://github.com/samuelfaj/distill

Thank you, I was searching github myself but this will make it a lot easier.
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