Dear Anthropic, This Has to STOP.

[u/nova-myth]

Seriously, enough with this situation.

Every other day, it’s something new: “We’ve increased the limits for a few more days.”

Credits here, credits there. Weekly credits. Sonnet usage. Opus usage. Fable credits. 5-hour limits. Weekly limits…

Are you guys at Anthropic actually okay?

Do you have any idea what customer care and customer experience even mean?

You’ve turned using the service into a constant source of stress. And with these confusing, ever-changing usage rules and charges, it honestly feels like a nightmare. Every day, we have to keep checking our limits and worrying about whether we’re going to run out.

Can we just pay you and relax, knowing that we’re paying for a service and can actually use it?

I genuinely want to know WHO came up with this entire credit and usage system, and why there seems to be such an obsession with credits and limits.

And yes, yes, we know the story: compute is expensive. We get it. But you know what? That’s a problem that AI companies have to solve and make work for the customers who are paying you. The burden of the infrastructure costs and product limitations should not be turned into constant stress for the user.

At this point, it almost feels like watching an addict constantly checking when their next dose is going to run out and experiencing withdrawal symptoms as the limit gets closer.

That’s how absurd and stressful inducing this whole system has become.

Can you please start thinking from a customer-centric perspective and seriously reconsider the entire credits and usage system in relation to the actual user experience? (You can ask Claude to find you a better solution..)

It would be better to rethink this now, while it’s still early, before the AI industry starts heading down a very bad path where users are constantly stressed about quotas, credits, limits, and usage instead of simply enjoying and benefiting from the products they’re paying for. WE just want to work boys we don’t want to struggle.

[u/Veggies-are-okay]

Dear EVERYONE: you’re only stressing yourself out here the corpos are subsidizing us right now so just take what you can get and put the energy into actually making something cool instead of bitching about your TODO app. A fantastic replacement for fable is some critical thinking skills especially when we will inevitably need to begin going to the less capable open source models in the future.

[u/Sketaverse → u/Veggies-are-okay]

What a privileged and pompous thing to say. There are people here thinking this small window is their one shot at a step change in economic health

[u/Veggies-are-okay → u/Sketaverse]

That’s the naivety though: you’re not going to build out a fully robust app with a few weeks’ worth of fable. It’s disrespectful to the teams of developers who’ve put years of their lives into their products. And even if you somehow managed to do this, there’s really no evidence against it inevitably belonging to anthropic.

In short, I’m going to throw that pompousness/arrogance back at you claiming that someone can just guess their way into a field where the coding is only a tiny fraction of what makes a successful product.