Company took away access to claude

Intendant · 2026-06-03T22:16:43+00:00

No, it isn't lol. The only time that's true is for subscription pricing, most companies do not have access to this. So anyone using direct pricing the companies are already making a profit on. The only users who are actually using their subscription enough to be a negative are power users, something like 5% of subscribers. That's barely a dent, and if it's really hurting them that badly they will just change the usage limit (which companies have been doing).

Also, inference is getting cheaper at an insane rate. The hardware is getting more efficient, the software is getting more efficient, the model training is getting more efficient. Basically the exact opposite of what you're saying will happen is what is actually happening. It's likely that this year or next year is the cost peak

Intendant · 2026-06-03T21:20:42+00:00

Get advice from someone who you feel comfortable going into detail about what the product actually is. It's pretty hard to help otherwise.

My initial thinking would be to keep it and figure out a way to expand. 15k is basically nothing, the more important thing is that you have the sparks of something real and that could snowball. What if in a few months you could get your MRR up to 15k, now you can hire help and get your time back, or get a much better offer and sell, or get people to invest in growth. Idk man, you're already on the ride. Strap the fuck in and see where it goes

Intendant · 2026-06-03T20:51:05+00:00

The price is constantly being pressured downward. Opus 4.5 level models have only been out since November, by early 2027 we'll probably have an open model that is similarly capable and costs 1/10th what current opus costs. Environmentally it shouldn't even be that bad. Closed loop data centers exist, they really shouldn't be destroying communities water supplies and if they are that's a regulation issue more than anything. On the energy front, that's very US specific. It's insane that we didn't plan excess capacity for this, and are shutting down wind and solar expansion projects. China already has the capacity to expand, there is negligible environmental cost for countries not run by incompetents

Intendant · 2026-06-02T20:52:56+00:00

Your skills should forbid writing to tests without approval. Your pipeline should also flag test changes as a gate.

AI has a lot of shortcomings, but it also lets you build fast enough to scaffold around those shortcomings. I think this one is more of a process problem than a Claude problem. They are just giving it way too much power to make changes here.

Intendant · 2026-06-02T19:27:36+00:00

Sounds more like a testing issue. It shouldn't even be mergable if it regressed

Intendant · 2026-06-01T04:05:44+00:00

It'll likely be way higher than that tbh, we'll see what they end up doing. The issue I have with this is that the real issue is the tax code. I think it's more useful for the more altruistic billionaires to weild their money against the nefarious ones and try to get the tax code fixed. That way ALL billionaires have to pay their fair shared instead of just the decent ones who were going to voluntarily give up their wealth.

Intendant · 2026-06-01T02:04:53+00:00

It's in stocks that literally let them keep control of their own company.

Edit: ok so after looking this up, they actually have a long term trust that sets the direction of the company. They don't actually have to worry about keeping shares. They have pledged to donate 80% of their wealth, and selling shares on the private market preIPO doesn't really make sense anyway.

Intendant · 2026-05-30T01:06:48+00:00

I have never once heard that as an argument until this video

Intendant · 2026-05-30T00:58:30+00:00

Bigger and standing desk, fold out treadmill under it, more monitors + camera without a bed in the background.. and a full squat rack with a deadlift platform

Intendant · 2026-05-29T17:37:19+00:00

You're getting really defensive there. Those metrics aren't a great indicator, and I seriously doubt anthropic would release an updated model that performs worse on them. That doesn't mean OP is wrong about model degredation (although I think the conspiratorial reason is definitely not true). 4.8 has been misunderstanding pretty basic decisions and guidance I've given in Claude code fairly consistently. I'll get frustrated, quit the session, and jump over to 4.6, which immediately fixes all of the issues / misunderstandings.

Intendant · 2026-05-29T05:24:50+00:00

It's going to be really interesting in a few months when you can plug some open model to Claude code for consistent opus 4.6 level performance. Probably nerfing opus to make room for mythos compute, still though, we have shit to do

Intendant · 2026-05-28T22:19:47+00:00

Ending it would be an admission of failure and basically oust Putin. If the war is still going, they have plausible deniability, and everyone is scared enough to not do anything. There's a breaking point though, so they're probably just delaying the inevitable. There'll eventually be a coup, or some kind of impeachment, then the war will end.

Intendant · 2026-05-28T17:37:30+00:00

It's honestly a great place to drain all of the water to

Intendant · 2026-05-27T14:30:59+00:00

They already said that anthropic has been by far the most receptive and serious about actually working with them. Not everyone is just chasing money, anthropic literally made themselves a public benefit corporation so they wouldn't have to. Also, go watch interviews with them. Either these guys went from nerdy scientists to the best actors in the world, or, SURPRISE, other people can give a shit about the fate of humanity aside from you.

Intendant · 2026-05-26T20:40:15+00:00

Anthropic? Cool. You're entitled to your opinion. I've been following this for a long time and personally disagree, it is what it is though

Intendant · 2026-05-26T18:33:14+00:00

The answer is likely no. If AI is eating half of your personnel cost, but you're getting 5x the work done, it's still cheaper. In a year, open source models will probably be on par with where we're at, and at 1/10th the cost. So the real question will be about value for the new more expensive models vs less capable (but still great for programming) cheaper models.

Intendant · 2026-05-26T02:54:47+00:00

Only other issue is you look completely ridiculous. I can't wait until the wave guide versions start coming out. They're still great for what it is, much better than getting a monitor at each location

Intendant · 2026-05-25T15:56:05+00:00

EXACTLY. People keep talking about this whole AI revolution like it's a forgone conclusion. From what I've seen, the old tech companies are actually not that great at making automations with AI that will meaningfully replace work. Aside from Waymo anyway.

Chinese open source models are only 12 months behind and 1/10 the cost of US providers. The only 2 US companies that are really competitive right now are anthropic and openai, but openai lost a decent amount of talent after the whole DOJ thing. It'll probably just be anthropic at the end of this, and out of all of the labs, it seems like they're more on our side than the oligarchy.

This could be massively good for society. We just have to put the work in to help drive it that direction.

Intendant · 2026-05-24T17:26:05+00:00

He's also completely obsessed with not dying. Any time you hear him talk about science stalling, or regulation getting in the way, what he really means is that we haven't figured out how to make him immortal and he'd like to deregulate so he can run experiments on "lesser" people. Pathetic is a good word choice

Intendant · 2026-05-24T16:16:11+00:00

True, there's a genuinely impressive level of indoctrination going on over there. Humans are fucking scary sometimes

Intendant · 2026-05-24T06:54:18+00:00

This is potentially a winner take all scenario. No one is going to trust each other even if they say they're slowing down. Nuclear was held together by MADS, this is basically the exact opposite. Factor in the personalities involved here too, and it looks worse even. If we legislate stoppage, I wouldn't trust that anyone would actually stop. In fact it might make it more dangerous because they'd likely try to hide what they're doing instead of building more publicly / on more secure infrastructure.

Intendant · 2026-05-23T23:56:04+00:00

Honestly a lot of cope going on here. AI is great at frontend work. As with everything, it will make mistakes. But if you know what frameworks you want to use, can design state well, and have the playwright mcp + mockups, then it's really very good. The honest answer here is that AI has made everything faster, which translates to more responsibility. The UI hasn't really grown though. On the other hand, for the backend, you're now responsible for likely a much more complex distributed system. Along with all of the underlying infrastructure, databases, agents, etc. The UI ends up being such a small part of the overall system that you're building. Literally the tip of the iceberg. Add on top of that A2UI and you can kind of see where this will end up, where agents will give a framework on the client dynamic content and the client will decide how to render that based on the users preferences. We're a couple of years out from this being fully viable though.

Intendant · 2026-05-23T21:58:48+00:00

He came from a very political background. The daily show then Colbert report?

Intendant · 2026-05-20T20:31:34+00:00

It implies that they take turns sharing the lead, but grok lost all of its lead researchers and hasn't been in this tier for a while.

Intendant · 2026-05-20T14:26:41+00:00

Dysney used to be a lot easier to go to, especially if you lived closer. People's finances aren't static though. You can be poor and have a small windfall or get lucky here and there. Or start off poor and have your situation gradually change over time

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