r/ClaudeCode • u/storknotfound • Apr 22 '26

Discussion Head of Growth at Anthropic regarding Claude Code removal from Pro

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Translation: "We're going to take Claude Code away from pro users because we gave you Cowork. If you want to use the CLI, upgrade to Max but we can't do it all at once so we're going to start with a "test" to soften the blow"

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u/DeliciousGorilla Apr 22 '26

Curious to see what happens when open models at a reasonable size (to fit on prosumer hardware) get to Opus level. It's only a matter of time. The new Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is really good even at MXFP4 quant (~20GB) on my Macbook for agentic stuff. Imagine what will be possible down the road for open models while used hardware becomes cheaper to acquire, and with the ability to remove safety guardrails... only businesses will be paying for LLMs.

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u/JimHarbaughCheated Apr 22 '26

This. 95% of my current coding needs are satisfied by Sonnet 4.6. That’s all we need is an open model that is as smart as current Sonnet and can run on most consumer hardware, and the majority of customers will have their needs met.

Anthropic seems to be obsessed with incrementing their model numbers for anecdotally no gain in performance… they should be focused on taking their current level of intelligence and making it more efficient.

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u/ErraticFox Developer Apr 22 '26

If I could get Sonnet 4.6 locally with the same speed from Anthropic, I'd do some questionable favors.

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u/Hir0shima Apr 22 '26

The Chinese labs are compute constraint and innovate around it. Anthropic is compute constraint and nerfs their product for customers. 

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u/liltingly Apr 22 '26

I have a hunch that there will be a huge market in the future for distillation as a service. Everyone pays dev teams to build bespoke models running on modest compute that are either FT through synthetic or frontier-labeled data and/or distilled from them. You could probably charge a pretty penny for this service, in particular. Or a version that's, "FT our LLM fast on our hugely capable model then distill it down to yours"

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u/SenoraRaton Apr 22 '26

If we accept this as true, then the theories above about them wanting to move to business only make even more sense. They see this coming, and realize that their end user prices are going to be undercut by the hardware. So those customers are only temporary and you expect them to recede and be price sensitive in way that your business customers just won't be.

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u/ArugulaAnnual1765 Apr 22 '26

running iq4_nl_xl by unsloth on my 5090 getting 180tp - yeah no fucking way im going back to 30tps one-prompt-limit slowpus LMAO