The Whole Anthropic Kerfuffle (twitter.com)

> At Anthropic, we build AI to serve humanity’s long-term well-being.

If Anthropic actually cared about humans, they would have the best customer support (staffed by humans, for humans) and communications team (again, staffed by humans, for humans).

As both of these are actually on par with Silicon Valley standards (between medicore and atrociously bad), Anthropic cannot and should not be trusted with anything to do with AI, because whatever they do will not benefit humanity.

Find it surprising that there are people still under the delusion that they have an audience of humans on twitter worth speaking to

LLMs represent a big shift of power towards capital until such time as local ones are 'good enough'.

It really is the doordash/uber playbook all over again eh? Sell at a massive loss, gain userbase, then gradually boil the frog by adding fees, removing features, and increasing prices. Except instead of doing this a few years down the line, they're speedrunning the tighten-the-noose phase.

Unfortunately the competition is nipping at their heels so there's a good chance this blows up in their faces.

If you would be honest, everyone understood that this is a work around that us not there to last.

What's the subtext here? I don't live under a rock, but there have been so many Anthropic kerfuffles that I have lost track.

> Impacting devrel is just collateral damage, which is on par for a company which believes coding is going away any time now.

This makes sense.

Yeah, claude code is mostly unusable at this point. It's been in a constant decline for a good 1-2 months. It's more like a scam now.

I really wish Anthropic would consult some monetization experts. Their recent strategy has been all over the place and they are burning early goodwill.

Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48126438

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48125552

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48126281

Max x20 usage is so cheap, that it's pretty obviously subsidized. And the non-interactive usage is the easiest to explode. They could play games with "reasonable use" and whack a mole accounts that are obviously farming it, but their approach is ultimately more fair.

And I say this as somebody who just discovered agent orchestration and would absolutely love their limits to remain as they are.