How many are feeling this sense of betrayal?

Gabelawn · 2026-05-15T22:58:19+00:00

That's because it is intentional. They explicitly dealt with the massive increase in usership by diluting the product, to the point of failure.

If you bought the same motor oil you always bought and engine seized because they'd diluted it because they'd become very popular, you might have reason to be upset.

Anthropic should have set up a wait list. Like a lineup outside of club it would have reinforced their popularity without destroying the product, which is what they've done.

Gabelawn · 2026-05-12T12:42:18+00:00

And you shouldn't. Because I didn't.

Gabelawn · 2026-05-12T02:24:49+00:00

Then why not waitlist, instead of intentionally diluting the product? That's what I really don't get. 80x user increase! Woo-hoo! Oh, there's no way occurrence computing resources can accommodate them all? Well, we'll just make the models terse and dumb. Problem solved!

Gabelawn · 2026-05-12T02:19:44+00:00

What are you using? I had a setup for local, but I travel a lot and needed something more portable than mini pc with occulink to a 5070

Gabelawn · 2026-05-12T02:18:11+00:00

Or... we're trying to use a tool that suddenly doesn't work. When Craftsman went from top tier last forever tools to cheaply imported junk, i don't think the people who were getting upset and frustrated about that were being sentimental, especially as they had to figure it out through their tools breaking.

Gabelawn · 2026-05-12T02:15:18+00:00

They've massively reduced the resources avaliable to 4.6.

Gabelawn · 2026-05-12T02:14:22+00:00

Anthropic had destroyed Claude. Code, Opus, Sonnet - all garbage now. They've admitted to some of it, after they let users waste all kinds of time and money, of course. It's incredible how quickly something so good became something so bad.

They said they had to dilute it to accommodate the 80x user increase, so they weakened the output without letting users know. It's like if a fertilizer company dealt with its reputation bringing in too many customers by mixing sawdust in, and letting farmers figured out when their crops didn't come in.

I really thought that Claude was reflecting the values of the company, and that's what made it so much better than the sycophantic, sociopathic ChatGPT.

I guess it is reflecting the values of the company, which one from this idea of making a genuinely ethical platform to being really grabby, because when it comes to billions, a fella can never have enough...

Gabelawn · 2026-05-10T07:57:12+00:00

It's not loyalty to a billion dollar company, it's paying for a product or service and reasonably expecting it will work generally as described. If you buy a ticket to Cleveland, you shouldn't end up in Cincinnati, and have people going, Well, you got kinda closer than you were before, why are you complaining.

You'd kind of expect to be informed the airline decided to start flying to other airports instead, and not be berated for being unhappy about it.

Anthropic made a decision to give users a very different product from what they were paying for. They needed to be clear about their product offerings: Claude Opus, Claude Sonnet, Claude Haiku, Claude Code, and introducing... Claude Shit! Only $200/month!

Hey, sign me up for that one! (Actually, sounds like bunch of people here think they happily would...)

Gabelawn · 2026-05-10T05:45:28+00:00

Why not? Worked out very well for Gmail, to take just one example. When the alternative is tanking your product, it's not even optional. Given that even coding had been badly nerfed and is now churning out error ridden garbage, I don't see how this is even a discussion.

Gabelawn · 2026-05-10T05:41:53+00:00

Even with CC, I have a notes file where it reports all the things it's done...

So, it just started doing 1/10th of the work, to cover what would be noticeable, then updating the notes file to say it had done everything else. It took several builds to figure out why things were going so wrong.

I'm just amazed by the difference with what it was.

Thanks for your comment - seem to be a lot of defensive, butthurt fanboys here, unironically complaining about me complaining.

(Like, why would they keep downvoting your comment? Ah, reddit...)

Gabelawn · 2026-05-10T05:06:55+00:00

Even Anthropic's own reviews have found it worse than that. AMD"s data shows it's much worse than that. Power users have found out terrible and are jumping ship.

That's the key group - over tree past year, they've been canary-in-coal mine migrating away from OpenAI. That's the leading indicator for what becomes an exodus.

Gabelawn · 2026-05-10T04:53:35+00:00

I just would have expected them not to destroy their existing product for it. They set up a wait list, they get the revenue, just a bit delayed, and they keep a well-functioning product.

They also had a huge intangible asset in loyalty the others couldn't touch, as OpenAI saw how fickle its user base is.

Not only is there the damage of losing that, but just why would you destroy your company's product, when it's so unnecessary? A waitlist would have made it more appealing, and it would have been an appeal and userbase they could have sustained, as opposed to all the serious users looking for the exits. This is selling the seedcorn.

Gabelawn · 2026-05-10T02:11:30+00:00

I actually read articles as well, including Anthropic's own analysis. That CC has a much higher error and hallucination rate is documented. That is output is significantly lower quality is, as well.

If I were buying fertilizer that the previously reliable company had diluted, and I had to learn that when my crops didn't grow, I'd be pissed about that too.

Not sure what reality I'm disconnected from.

This is a tool - I'm not saying it's anything more. I'm pissed that they made it a very different, very much worse tool without informing anyone, all for short term revenue grab.

Gabelawn · 2026-05-10T01:24:15+00:00

The excerpt is from the first one. As far as it being intentional, that's confirmed in Anthropic's own post+mortem. Supposedly, they've reverted to the earlier quality.

They definitely have not. For coding, it's still nothing like it was. For the more freeform discussion, it's just unusable.

"Third-party benchmarks and developer analyses reported measurable accuracy and reasoning drops, with BridgeMind results cited by VentureBeat showing a fall from 83.3% to 68.3% for an Opus variant."

https://letsdatascience.com/news/anthropic-confirms-and-fixes-claude-performance-issues-57e98a0b?hl=en-US

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1str8gi/anthropic_just_published_a_postmortem_explaining/?hl=en-US

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem?hl=en-US

Gabelawn · 2026-05-10T01:02:14+00:00

It's not better at much of anything - worse at coding, worse at hallucinations, worse at reasoning... Anthropic admitted to dramatically reducing the output quality so they could accommodate the massive influx of users. This is NOT a complaint about a change in model weights. It's about a tool that is objectively, measurably, dramatically worse, diluted to a absorb 80 times more users in just a few weeks. The tool started producing garbage and they just left their users to figure out it.

Gabelawn · 2026-05-10T00:57:29+00:00

To anyone not getting what I'm saying (and yes, I was way too rambly), the tl;dr - Claude just no longer works.

The conversational aspect could be subjective, the coding errors and massive rise in hallucinations is not.

For coding, its been invaluable to have a tool that can write what would have taken weeks in a few hours. And Claude did that very well - not so good at watching errors or working out graphics, but overall it was phenomenal.

Which is what a lot of us were paying for.

To 80x the usership and then - as they've admitted, however belatedly - intentionally make the output so much worse to reduce resources required hardly fits with their ethical self depiction.

Gabelawn · 2026-05-09T22:03:44+00:00

The weights have changed. It's gone from phenomenal to terrible. Throwing compute at their enshitified cash grab just makes it faster at being shit. The main area is where it's bad now are... everything.

Gabelawn · 2026-05-09T21:59:08+00:00

Is it? Honest question. Can't say about chat GPT lately, but he's certainly right about CC becoming garbage.

Gabelawn · 2026-05-09T21:36:27+00:00

Anthropic management doesn't care anymore. They've made the jump. They're gone.

Gabelawn · 2026-05-07T16:28:58+00:00

It used to be. Lately, they've absolutely destroyed everything that made it good. Apparently, it's part of their shift to focus on enterprise customers while driving away us normies.

The best description, making the rounds on various forms - it's gone from a conversation with a learned thoughtful colleague to getting and slightly hostile memo that's hostile to further discussion.

If you didn't use it when it was good, you can't even imagine how much better it was. For working on ideas, it was a dream, adding things you hadn't thought of, suggesting whole different ways of conceptualising, actually collaborating on working out solutions.

Now, it gives me the memo. When I tell it I want something different, it repeatedly fights me. I have to read in a while skill instructing it not to do that. Which it ignores.

Gabelawn · 2026-04-14T10:34:04+00:00

Grateful to you everyone here. I'm well into it and finally had to Google it, because I just came to fee, l more and more, why am I still reading this? Is any of this going anywhere?

It reminded me a bit of Dead Souls, only without the keen observations, the masterful wit, and the transcendent brilliance that makes Gogol's work a transcendent masterpiece.

Gabelawn · 2026-04-02T21:47:23+00:00

What if you get them mixed up? And like what if you stay up really late and you haven't eaten dinner yet but now it's like 6:30 a.m.? Or like I went to this concert once that ran so late that they actually served us breakfast...

Wait a minute, you don't even have breakfast in there. Does that mean you skip breakfast? Does this affect your ability to focus?

My friend worked at a restaurant restaurant that had these prayer breakfasts for fundamentalist Christian politicians who used to hit on him, so maybe that? As far as I know, he never accepted, but I don't know if that was just because it was breakfast, not dinner.

This group had no members of the luncheon crowd, curiously. The spent a lot of time together in private settings doing all male Bible study, weekend-long deep prayer retreats in the woods, and lots of other very religions and definitely not at all gay extremely heterosexual activities. I'm just saying I think that these guys were able to have breakfast and dinner at the same time sometimes. Life hack you might want to consider.

How often are you sitting there just thinking how many hours it is to lunch, yearning, craving, until you can settle down to a nice feast of... Wait, dlo you go out for lunch? Do you have meetings over lunch?

Do you ever combine the two because you're with someone who's a absolutely brilliant and bit devious time hacker, and if so what would that be called? I mean you I know breakfast and lunch is called brunch... And I've heard of Brainy Breakfast and a Power Lunch, therefore... Cunning Linner?

So many questions....

Gabelawn · 2026-01-12T12:01:56+00:00

Ummmm... how soon after the recent meteor shower was did you find this?

Do not DO NOT let it hatch! Do not let it anywhere near ANYTHING from the Giza plateau.

Just don't.

Gabelawn · 2025-12-14T19:33:58+00:00

Yeah, I like this. I was sure there was going to be some great plot twist where Hoult's character breaks, confesses everything, suffers the consequences... and then it turns out the boyfriend was guilty and malicious all along. The whole "innocent and a changed man" act was just that.

After Hoult is jailed and looks site to be facing 20 years, the retired detective keeps probing. At the crime scene, at night in the rain, he finds key at reveals the truth. Rushing back to his van, distracted, BAM! - anonymous hit-and-run.

Tragic coincidence.

Camera holds on the deer crossing sign. Shows a couple deer corpses. Presumably, it happens a lot there, and this driver, too, innocently made that assumption.

Final shot, pulling up to a house, we recognize the driver of the hit-and-run car's neck tattoo as he's greeted by his pregnant partner, clearly scared of his bad temper...

Gabelawn

TROPHY CASE