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I did my (out of the ordinary) taxes this year using agents, kind of as an experiment and kind of to save ~$750. Opus 4.6 max in CC, 5.4 xhigh in codex, and 3.1 high in antigravity. All on the $20/mo plans. I have a day job, a side business, actively trade shares options and futures, and have a few energy credit items. All were given the same copied folder containing all the needed documents to compose the return, an…
It's a bit shocking to me how opaque the pricing for the subscription services by the frontier labs is. It's basically impossible for people to tell what they're actually buying, and difficult to even meaningfully report or compare experiences. How is this normal?
I've experienced none of the problems I've seen people complaining about here (5x plan), Claude has been working pretty well and I've been using it constantly without exhausting any of my quotas. Yet, there must obviously be something different for so many people to be reporting these issues. I feel for the Anthropic devs that have to deal with this, having to figure out what setup everyone has, what their usage patt…
what continent?
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So Anthropic is trying to save money on infrastructure, we all get it. However, it's not ok to degrade the performance your users have paid for. Last week the issue was that you reduced the default "effort" level, now the prompt cache is shortened. Several users experience far more restrictive usage limits lately. There is only so much you can do through "UX improvements" or some smart routing on the backend. Your fl…
Classic VC pump playbook - run it uneconomically until everyone is addicted, then 5x prices once you have enough critical mass. See 2010s "Millennial Lifestyle Subsidy"..
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> Since Claude Code uses a 1 hour prompt cache window for the main agent, if you leave your computer for over an hour then continue a stale session, it's often a full cache miss. To improve this, we have shipped a few UX improvements (eg. to nudge you to /clear before continuing a long stale session), and are investigating defaulting to 400k context instead I don’t understand this. I frequently have long breaks. I ne…
Makes me wish that shortly before the server-side expiration, we could save the cache on the client-side, indefinitely. But my understanding is that we're talking about ~60GB of data per session, so it sounds unrealistic to do...
I think the primary reason they cannot do this is that they change the memory and communication layouts in their serving stack rather aggressively. And naturally keeping the KV cache portable across all such layouts is a very difficult task. So you'd have to version the cache down to a specific deployment, and invalidate it the moment anything even small changes. So giving the user a handle to the cache sort of prevents you from making large changes to memory layout. Which is I suppose not that enticing. Also, client side KV caches are only meaningful in today's 1M contexts. Few y back it wasn't necessary, since just recomputing would be better for everybody.
To be clear, I don't mean they send it along with every request. Rather, they do their current TTL cache, and then when I'm at the end of a session, I request it in one shot and then close the session. And it doesn't have to come to the literal client, they can egress it to a storage service that we pay for, whatever. But ya the compat problem makes it all a non starter.
I did my (out of the ordinary) taxes this year using agents, kind of as an experiment and kind of to save ~$750. Opus 4.6 max in CC, 5.4 xhigh in codex, and 3.1 high in antigravity. All on the $20/mo plans. I have a day job, a side business, actively trade shares options and futures, and have a few energy credit items. All were given the same copied folder containing all the needed documents to compose the return, an…
Did the prompt include "do research" or equivalent?
Hey model, I need your help to complete my (federal/state) tax return for 2025. My tax situation looks like (list of job, personal business, stock trading, credits). I have included all the applicable tax forms in the folder, as well as a spreadsheet of my business's general ledger for the year.
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> When you pay for a Claude subscription, what exactly were you promised? I was promised 5x or 20x the amount of resources that the free tier would offer. I implicitly expected the same quality too, not some watered-down version of the product they allowed me to sample before committing to a subscription. Sooner or later Anthropic will run out of VC money, yes. That's their problem, not mine. When I took an Uber whil…
So how do you know that the free tier hasn’t been reduced by 5x?
Now the expectation is that we should tolerate goalposts being shuffled around on a weekly/daily basis with the added requirement of digging into bug tickets because there’s no attempt at transparency? The tech is cool but this is absolutely insane.
If you’re an individual developer paying $100-200/mo for a service that keeps changing, there is a LOT of reason to keep an eye on other products.
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Codex has been better for me, but it's WAY too nitpicky/defensive. It always wants to make changes that add complexity and code to solve a problem that's impossible to happen (e.g. a multiprocess race condition on a daemon I only ever run one instance of).
You just convinced me to try it. Claude just copy pastes, does search and replace, zero abstractions and I'm the one that needs to think about the edge cases.
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So how do you know that the free tier hasn’t been reduced by 5x?
It’s exhausting enough to deal with services that change around on an annual/semi-annual basis with pricing and expectations. Now the expectation is that we should tolerate goalposts being shuffled around on a weekly/daily basis with the added requirement of digging into bug tickets because there’s no attempt at transparency? The tech is cool but this is absolutely insane. If you’re an individual developer paying $10…
Honestly a developer paying $200 a month is a nothingburger and if using their service to the fullest is losing them money.
For context, the company I work for gives each consultant a $2000 a month allowance and I think there are probably around 500-700 people with that allowance. I’m sure everyone doesn’t use it all.
If they have limited hardware resources, where do you think they are going to focus?
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Those are not assumptions on your interlocutor's part. You've embarrassed yourself quite badly, I'm afraid. I know you don't understand how, but that doesn't change the fact of it.
> You've embarrassed yourself quite badly, I'm afraid. :( you are right. This isn’t the first time I’ve lost an argument because hours into a discussion somebody introduced “what if a billion dollars” or “magic amulet” or “ブルマの母” etc
The only reason I mentioned being an attorney was because someone in the thread above accused me of not understanding SLAs. I don't ordinarily bring it up unless we're talking about law or contracts and I feel the need to defend myself or correct misunderstandings. I don't try to use it to browbeat anyone into submission, although I do believe that respect for others' lived experiences and education is relatively uncommon here on HN.
I also don't care for my words to be misconstrued to mean something I didn't say. I rarely speak in absolutes because I've learned over time that there are very few absolutes in the world. Thus, I include qualifying language in nearly everything I write. So when someone accuses me of making claims of certainty that I didn't make, I can get pretty defensive about that.