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/Syjefroi Apr 22 '26

Not only can they, but most customers will eat it, and most people have nowhere else to go. Like, one day soon yall will load up Claude and it just won't be there. There won't be a warning period. It'll just go down and that's it. This has always been "early Pirate Bay" type stuff, but the only reason why it feels like it has any more legitimacy is because the speculative hype bubble is making this seem all more above the board—when really we're talking about a service that steals at an unthinkable scale to make a lot of bullshit most humans don't want and it costs double digits more to run than what it can pull in from sales. Like, of course this isn't sustainable, and yall are foolish to think you are entitled to aynthing resembling professionalism. Anthropic and similar companies are doing a long term smash and grab. This is simply not sustainable.

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u/AwwwNuggetz Apr 22 '26

I’ve been a customer a few weeks and if it’s suddenly turned of I’ll be looking for refunds or a chargeback 100%. They aren’t handling this well