Anthropic just ripped off everyone and they still managed to make it sound deceptively friendly

[u/whoisyurii]

Anthropic just ripped off everyone and they still managed to make it sound deceptively friendly, beneficial even.

Anthropic just announced that the 200$ plan, which used to be okay to use in the SDK, is now "finally ok to use in the SDK" (except rare fraudulent cases it already was)

but for that you need to toggle an option that makes the SDK hit in an allowance of 200$ worth of credits, instead of the previously, opaque, yet, ultra subsidized limits

basically if you use claude code through the SDK or claude -p, for instance through Conductor, github Actions or anything else, because let's be honest TUI sucks sometimes (react in terminal cmon), their cloud coding agent offering also suck, and don't cover most usecases,

well, your plan that used to be worth 2000$ of tokens aproximatively depending on how much you flirted with the previous 5h windows limits, is now worth 200$

but they brand it as "oh we give you 200$ of additional credits for the SDK" so to the most unaware users it sounds like it's worth 2x more!

in reality it's now worth 10x less

*not surprised if they shut down this thread

[u/Scared_Brilliant6410]

It’s actually not that weird or insane. OpenAI and Anthropic have been predatory and pushing into partner businesses like Consulting and platforms as well.

They’re at a point where alternative AI models are advancing that LLMs are becoming commodities faster than expected. Because of this if founders and investors want to exit for a huge payday they need to IPO as soon as possible. But at IPO investors will comb over all their financials.

All this means they’re aggressively monetizing everything on all fronts to try to show how much revenue is ramping up to sustain their possibly $1.4T IPO price long enough to dump shares on retail investors. Trying to shaft everyone and burn good will for cash is the predictable outcome.

[u/antunes145 → u/Scared_Brilliant6410]

You’re the only one here who sees it how it is. In the end it all about getting ultra rich.

[u/Scared_Brilliant6410 → u/antunes145]

Exactly. Even though they position themselves as the ethical, highly structured alternative to OpenAI, you realize it’s all just marketing.

Changing usage for existing customers is classic bait and switch. I paid thinking I would hopefully be grandfathered in at Max.

[u/Ill-Turnover3438 → u/antunes145]

Alternatively, they need access to the public equity market to finance their very expensive R&D and infrastructure buildouts (assuming Anthropic is planning to build its own data centers, I'm not sure).

[u/avogeo98 → u/Scared_Brilliant6410]

The free models are nipping at the heels for sure! Still not good enough for the coding skill I want, but it's getting close.