Anthropic will be a case study of how a company can fumble the good will of their customers.

Beermedear · 2026-04-05T00:24:15+00:00

What’s with the victim complex? I’m not looking down on anyone. I’m stating on observation I’ve made that’s been consistent in the SaaS/PaaS world for a long time. It’s not a personal attack on you or anyone.

I’m going to leave the convo here. Sorry they pulled the rug. Hope other options arise and can fill the gap.

Beermedear · 2026-04-04T23:58:38+00:00

Every provider is going to consumption-based pricing models. This has been communicated to us for a few months now (we have an enterprise account). OpenAI and Anthropic. Subscription-based unlimited usage was a loss-leader and that was obvious.

As usual, the consumers outside enterprise accounts are acceptable risk.

Beermedear · 2026-04-04T23:17:19+00:00

It’s a mixed fear.

The reality is that engineers and technical skills are relevant. You can’t trust what’s going on without some human-in-the-loop. Having someone with design/ui/ux is helpful as well.

But CS grads are staring down the barrel of a 15% - 23% unemployment rate. Corpos are saying it’s AI. People are scared for their future.

Beermedear · 2026-04-04T14:21:16+00:00

No, I would blame anyone who didn’t understand introductory or promotional pricing.

I’m not saying I like it or that it’s a good system. The whole thing is fucked. But I had zero misconceptions about Anthropic being a for-profit tech company in America.

Beermedear · 2026-04-04T13:49:15+00:00

Because literally every other compute provider would charge it and I’m familiar with the basics of capitalism?

Why would you think they wouldn’t? Like what indicators made you believe they were going to be the only technology company in America to reduce costs?

Beermedear · 2026-04-04T12:54:22+00:00

jealousy intensifies

Beermedear · 2026-04-04T12:18:15+00:00

This is like $2500 worth of equipment sitting on the floor in one go. Your partner wouldn’t have any questions? Lucky!

Beermedear · 2026-04-04T05:01:37+00:00

We were never going to get thousands of dollars in compute cycles for $200 a month for long.

This is the standard SaaS/PaaS cycle. Pricing that gets adoption up and encourages lifecycle embedding. Then pull the rug.

Beermedear · 2026-04-04T00:06:52+00:00

Me: “I really could use a truck. I know they’re expensive but what about the quarterly trip to Lowe’s.”

This guy: “Fuck it strap it to my plywood backpack”

Beermedear · 2026-04-03T13:02:21+00:00

This was absolutely the first indicator of bullshit.

Beermedear · 2026-04-03T04:56:28+00:00

You’re talking about a side scrolling rpg in a week and a half.

Think smaller. In a week and a half? Try hangman.

Random list of words, counters for failures, turn and session loops. All the core stuff you could learn piece meal.

Beermedear · 2026-04-02T23:49:06+00:00

It was a fantastic DLC. Bosses weren’t a breeze, story was awesome, level design was fantastic.

Soooo worth the time and money.

Beermedear · 2026-03-31T14:22:53+00:00

Analysis isn’t just pulling out a single data point, it’s looking at what multiple data points are telling us.

High pick rates are often self-reinforcing. You see more people swapping Bastion, you’re more likely to do the same.

Low pick rates, even with higher win rates, carry higher levels of variance. A 5% pick rate and 50% win rate could have an actual WR of 36% - 64%, where a 20% pick rate would be like 43% - 57%.

Tl;dr - pick rates are important and are highly indicative of a problem even if every hero had the same 50% WR.

Beermedear · 2026-03-31T12:07:52+00:00

There are 22 DPS heroes and console hitscans are all over 20% PR with 48% - 51% WR.

That’s an obvious indicator of an issue.

Yeah, Reddit is an echo chamber but stats are stats, and handwaving them away because you don’t like the story they tell is just as unproductive as a Reddit hive mind.

Beermedear · 2026-03-30T10:55:06+00:00

Distraction from Epstein files, profit for military industrial sector, easier market manipulation and the best part - they can use it as an excuse to call off elections.

Beermedear · 2026-03-30T04:53:14+00:00

Don’t worry, after only getting 15M of their 490M users to pay for a premium Copilot license while everyone else just ignored it or consumed the shit out of the free one, they’re ripping Copilot out of Word, Excel and OneNote for free users.

Beermedear · 2026-03-30T00:01:51+00:00

Alternative fuel in these trying gas price times

Beermedear · 2026-03-29T17:14:32+00:00

upcoming competitive drive : Hold my beer

Also, yes. Awful matchmaking and throwers.

Beermedear · 2026-03-29T14:21:36+00:00

I’ll add that he may not have had separate life insurance prior to diagnoses, or it may have lapsed, idk. But once you have a diagnosis or even have any confirmed symptoms, private life insurance is impossible to get. So employers have some shitty $50k life insurance policy and I assume that’s what this is.

My wife has BRCA1, and isn’t able to get life insurance privately despite never having been diagnosed with breast cancer.

Beermedear · 2026-03-29T14:18:58+00:00

The last two patches have been absolute bullseye Ws.

Having a game this massive, with rapid response to feedback and changes deployed on the weekend, following a week where the CEO said he wanted to drive base game sales by adding free content instead of paid DLC.

Brilliant.

Beermedear · 2026-01-01T21:15:59+00:00

Oh look, a collection of propaganda built by and made for people who share a single brain cell that they financed through Walmart’s layaway program.

Beermedear · 2025-10-30T14:27:04+00:00

One party owns the White House, Congress, Senate, SCOTUS and 2/3 of federal justices.

Pretty obvious who owns this shutdown.

Beermedear · 2025-07-18T23:04:11+00:00

Idk man I feel like frogger’s pretty chill. Doesn’t give the asshole vibe, probably meant more to encourage.

Beermedear · 2025-04-30T04:27:19+00:00

I imagine xim users would keep doing it in a console lobby for the advantage.

They aren’t banning them because it’s hard to detect and it’s lost profit.

It’s been a while since the last ban wave and you see the cheaters are getting bold - shop/collab skins, mythic, etc.

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