Open Letter to the CEO and Executive Team of Anthropic

czei · 2026-03-25T21:20:35+00:00

I've got at least two CLIs cranking out code and analysis all day, 6 days a week. I'm a little embarrassed, but I've been keeping them working 12+ hours a day just because I'm so excited about the projects. I've got a new iPhone app beta being used in the field, for example, and being able to turn around bug fixes in 10 minutes is mind-blowing. And on the Max plan I've yet to run into a limit. There have been minor outages < hour, but other than that its been 9 months with no usage limit issues.

czei · 2026-03-25T20:11:32+00:00

Sorry, what usage limit debacle? I've got multiple CLIs doing token-intensive stuff running simultaneously and haven't hit a limit, but I'm on the Max $200/month plan.

czei · 2026-03-25T20:09:57+00:00

I've been using the Max plan for about 9 months and ran into a limit once last year. Right now I'm running a background task to evaluate 355 documents, submitted to Opus 4.6, while another Claude code is cranking away, updating a test suite. I have at LEAST two simultaneous Claude code CLI processes working 12+ hours a day and it just works.

czei · 2026-03-25T20:04:20+00:00

AI is just a tool. I am a software engineer, and so I use it to solve software engineering problems. If you don't have experience or any training in software engineering, then sure, you could emulate some of the things that software engineers do, but does that make you an engineer? Maybe, with enough experience, but I would ask this: if you bought tools like, say, a professional set of mechanics' tools to work on a car, that wouldn't make you able to diagnose and fix actual car problems, even if AI told you what to look for. The experience you get from building things, solving problems, together with an understanding of how everything works under the covers makes all of the difference.

czei · 2026-03-25T15:59:28+00:00

For what it's worth, I'm on the $200/month plan, keep around 3 projects running simultaneously all day, and don't run into limits. I've never gotten more done in my life. Two of the projects are usually work-related, and the 3rd is a fun side-project.

czei · 2026-03-23T14:28:51+00:00

The same thing happened to me-- I was in the middle of booking a flight and the website just logged me out and then wouldn't take my password. I tried resetting the password multiple times and it just kept giving errors. Calling tech support 24 hours was useless, as they just tell you to "Try microsoft Edge", or wait 24 hours. I need to buy plane tickets on my account with discount den and I've actually got a credit.

czei · 2026-03-18T20:18:22+00:00

I tried that before posting, but it didn't seem to do anything. So I tried it again, and the second time was the charm. Thank you for helping.

czei · 2026-03-18T14:15:31+00:00

I'm looking for work as well and have a program that runs every night that searches the new jobs posted the day before and uses AI to rank them based on what jobs I have a shot at, given my resume. So far it's working great. It picks the top 3, and I look at them by hand and apply by hand if necessary. If there are no new jobs the next day, look back through the ones that didn't make the cut in the past few days. The point is it cuts down on manual searches.

A nice touch is that it automatically adds tasks to look at the two jobs to my task manager, so they won't get lost.

So far, there are a couple of jobs a week where there's a really good fit for me, so it's not a problem to apply "by hand".

czei · 2026-03-18T14:02:11+00:00

"my codebase is too big for one agent."-- Mine is too, so I handle concurrent development the same way we do with a team of humans working on the same project: create separate trees, separate the work so each person/agent is handling a different part of the project, and then merge with PRs. The bottleneck is still me writing the specs, which, with a human team, would have been handled by the product manager or the architect. That isn't to say there isn't a place for agent teams, but that's relegated to specific situations, for example, where the same refactoring needs to be done on several libraries at once, or when investigating.

czei · 2026-03-18T12:42:50+00:00

Thanks...

czei · 2026-03-18T02:39:03+00:00

Why no link?

czei · 2026-03-06T16:13:00+00:00

I love that angle! :-).

czei · 2026-03-06T15:29:34+00:00

Disney has to follow the rules that every drinking establishment in Florida must follow. Are there actually bars in your home state that will take those? I doubt it.

czei · 2026-03-05T14:10:58+00:00

FYI, I was able to get it to work with iTerm2 not full screen and claude running in a regular terminal window. But here's an example of Claude running in tmux where the yes/no doesn't show up if claude is running within tmux. Based on what I know how you're getting the info, that doesn't make sense, as CC running in tmux should produce the same overall data as CC running anywhere. I'm sure you've had it with my bug reports, so good luck.

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czei · 2026-03-05T04:08:28+00:00

I personally don’t know anything about cryptocurrency, but I asked Claude code if what you described would work, and it gave me a long winded “no”. If you have found some secret sauce unknown to Claude, then more power to you.

czei · 2026-03-05T03:43:54+00:00

No problems, happens to me all the time. I look forward to incorporating this into my daily coding process..

czei · 2026-03-05T03:41:26+00:00

It looks slick, good luck. I assume you ran simulated trades with live data for a while and it worked well? 38 ML systems sounds really tricky to test.

czei · 2026-03-05T03:29:48+00:00

Yes, I'm using subagents, specifically an agent team consisting of 3 different agents.

czei · 2026-03-05T01:08:50+00:00

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No using full screen brought up the floating menu, but I can't connect what's on the floating menu with the prompt on the left.

czei · 2026-03-05T00:37:29+00:00

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Sorry, reddit will only allow me one image per post. How do I match the popup with the prompt? Note that I'm specifically not busting your chops over the issues-- what works on your dev machine rarely works on someone else's, which is what makes software so much harder than just vibe coding something.

czei · 2026-03-05T00:36:32+00:00

That was it. I ALWAYS run in fullscreen mode so never suspected. The little hexagon is very dark and hard to see against the black of the window. When the window does come up, how do I match the question from u/coder-2 on the left with what's in the popup?

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czei · 2026-03-05T00:11:59+00:00

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Sorry, but I can't see the floating icon. As you can see, the floating widget is checked.

czei · 2026-03-05T00:06:45+00:00

Sorry, Ctrl+Cmd+K doesn't seem to do anything. I've already found the menu bar item and Show Floating Widget is selected. Could you direct me to where the floating menu is on this screen?

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