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Well, duh, that's precisely what's wrong with subscriptions.
That the product might improve?
In my experience, improvements are so rare compared to regressions, they might as well not exist.
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Re: Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?
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We're also not seeing much difference in real throughput at an agency. Everyone is getting decent results, output wise but it just doesn't seem to change the outcomes that much. There is also a mixed incentive at an agency, because a reduction in hours spent is a reduction in revenue. It will be interesting to see how it all plays out, but I suspect if cost continues to increase and output only improves incrementally…
API usage is on-demand, employees are a constant cost, guess what management loves most.
That's true but employees offer more than code output, and you still need people operating the "machine" at this stage.
I am interested in how corporate politics evolves in this new environment. Usually all the way up the chain, managers and directors use head count as a measure of power and influence (and compensation). Who's going to pay a director top level pay when all they're doing is funneling requirements to various agents? That seems like a technical role that isn't particularly aligned with the soft skills management excel with either.
Re: Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?
#673Earlier quoted context omitted.
We're also not seeing much difference in real throughput at an agency. Everyone is getting decent results, output wise but it just doesn't seem to change the outcomes that much. There is also a mixed incentive at an agency, because a reduction in hours spent is a reduction in revenue. It will be interesting to see how it all plays out, but I suspect if cost continues to increase and output only improves incrementally…
API usage is on-demand, employees are a constant cost, guess what management loves most.
Management seems disconnected from reality. Real employees accumulate tribal knowledge, have an almost infinite context, and don’t keep disabling unit tests because they don’t pass. They don’t really cost money if it’s information workers that build almost all of the modern service industry. It’s management that we should see as a cost center.
Re: Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?
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That's true of any company in any country. If you can convince the government that your company is sufficiently important, you can get subsidized.
My point was that the AI companies in China have already convinced the government to subsidize them.
Tax breaks, fee reductions/waivers, direct monetary incentives, and shielding from "unfavorable" regulation -whether local, state, or national- are all subsidies. Hell, depending on the particulars, government contracts can be subsidies... there's more than one government engineering project out there that could be reasonably referred to as a "jobs program for PhDs", and still more that are corporate handouts.
Every business believed by its "home" government to be sufficiently important gets subsidies when it asks for them... regardless of what nation houses that government. If your claim is that the major players in the "AI" industry aren't getting subsidies from local, state, and national governments in the US, then my claim is that you are lying.
Re: Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?
#675Honestly? I hope they do. Because Pro plan is ridiculous if your productivity depends on it. Then there might be a chance for other products to get better if people move to those services.