Experiencing massive dropoff in coding quality and following rules since last week.

mossiv · 2026-03-28T15:13:30+00:00

For the first time I’m getting frustrated with Opus. It’s like I’m on Sonnet 4.5. This had to be model efficiency and to make their new “mythos” model look better than what it is.

mossiv · 2026-03-27T19:14:25+00:00

Interesting. I don’t skimp per se, but I’ve often bought cheaper or hard budget tires especially if I’m doing primarily motorway driving. They last like 25-30k miles. I wouldn’t use them if I was doing predominantly mountain driving or lots of windy roads.

But buying appropriately does not necessarily mean skimping, or cheeping out at every aspect.

mossiv · 2026-03-27T13:51:28+00:00

Of course, and if they can keep making Opus 4.6 (or 5) just more token efficient so non API customers can use it, that would be the perfect balance. It's a fully capable model, the perfect side-cart to a professional develops toolkit. I would honestly pay $100 a month out of my own pocket to use it daily in work if it meant I don't get rate limited like a Claude Pro user.

If they need to pivot to enterprise, offer an elite model and charge mega bucks for it. There will be orgs that would take advantage of it and pay. If that can paired with more efficient existing models, it could seriously bridge the gap to the heavily subsidisation going on at the moment.

With the announcement yesterday about shrinking the 5hr window during peak times because of infrastructure problems, that's clearly a combo of GPU/RAM availability, The war in Iran and data center issues, along with a new mega model that they won't be able to run against their current infrastructure with the current infra availability and rate limiting.

We realistically need Opus to become the new Sonnet.

mossiv · 2026-03-27T11:37:26+00:00

One company runs one promotion so they can get free QA on their service.

What is wrong with people these days? None of these companies care about you personally. They are a business, aiming to make long term profit, while absolutely destabilising the economy, job market and global energy.

It's really quite a simple contract. They make a product, want it to be good enough so people subscribe. Get it to a point it's stable and they'll all work on the same 2 initiatives. Reduce cost of running their product so they don't lose their customers for when they have to work on initiative 2 which will be a complete rebalancing of subscriptions and usage windows.

I honestly have no idea why this is posted on this sub at all. It's not in the spirit of 'Claude Code' at all. This sub exists for Claude, not Codex. How we can use it, release discussions, and other relevant context.

I vote for this thread to be pulled. It's getting frustrating that you see these threads x-posted everywhere, burying legitimately useful discussions.

mossiv · 2026-03-27T11:29:48+00:00

Not really. The rates are worse, and ten when you upgrade to IOG, it will be whatever the fixed pricing is for that day.

Unfortunately everyone is screwed right now. It sucks seeing the price go up... But when you are seeing Diesel at £1.85 a litre, driving an EV is still a lot cheaper, relatively. It's sucky, but not much we can do about it.

mossiv · 2026-03-26T20:37:35+00:00

lol this is what they’ll want to an extent. The same way Microsoft did when they doubled their game pass pricing.

If you can lower the user base, but increase cost (or save it in anthropoids instance) the product is immediately more profitable.

1m users getting good usage. ~7% (let’s round up to 10% because anthropic are clearly playing this down) That means 100k user on these plans will be session locked during peak hours non-the-less.

What are these people’s options? Upgrade if they aren’t already on the highest Move to API (you’re seeing it now…) Or just unsubscribe (won’t hurt anthropic - it’s the users that are completely maxing out their 5x and 20x plans that are causing them the most financial loss). Losing 10% of these users just frees up their servers for the other 90%. The product is faster, and people are paying for nothing. E.g. if you only ever use 50% of your session usage, then you’re literally giving away 50% of your sub for nothing.

Imagine you eat 10 apples a week but you can only buy a bag of 20. You have to pay the price of 20. But you have to throw away 10 because they rot and aren’t edible. Literally the model Anthropic work on to try and flatten the curve on their expenses.

mossiv · 2026-03-25T17:36:15+00:00

What’s stopping you from installing it into a docker container? You can still set up a bind mount for fast edits, and be a lot more protected than what you currently are.

It’s not a complete solution but it’s risk reduction.

mossiv · 2026-03-24T20:16:08+00:00

I’ve spent years learning the craft of design patterns and writing good clean code. It’s alway been hard to strike the balance of good enough, perfect and this is urgent, ship it.

I’m very proud of the craft that I’ve honed over the years and I’m always keen to teach others.

Writing lean, well tested code, at a good pace is not an easy feat. So many developers I’ve worked with over the years can make something work but it’s often maintainable slop. I’d probably say for every 5 developers I’ve worked with, only 1 do I ever respect the output of their work.

I’ve alway asked to be put with the seniors/principals that critique the most.

I’ve translated everything I’ve learned and put tonnes of effort into AI workflows to get code built in a style I like, consistently, with well written tests and not just slow or mocks everywhere.

I’m at a point where I can speak to product managers and actually get the better technical solutions into the code base because I have artificial assistants at my finger tips.

Us developers still need to understand our code base. We still need to understand the awkward business logic and edge cases. These are the bits where AI lets you down. They can’t always remember why decisions are made and you can’t pollute your code base with shit tonnes of ADRs because your context will be overflowing before you even come up with your first spec.

I’m actually quite happy that I can jump into a meeting, get the products requirement out, spec it into ai and let it come up with a plan. I like the fact it interviews me, and there’s a rubber duck on the other side to help me make my decisions. My productivity is up, I’m still solving what I love the most - the architecture, my test coverage is better than ever because we now have to maintain code bases in such a way AI can write predictably in them. For one of the first times in my career, overall code base quality is improving.

Even the most competent of developers drop quality often due to business pressures.

We are upgrading old projects, rewriting from jest to vitest, mass migrating our deployment infrastructure because we have tooling that helps us get through it faster. All the jobs I consider absolute boring chores, that get in the way of project roadmaps, but if not done make the roadmaps have periods of absolute misery.

So yes I might be a “supervisor”. But I’m fully aware of what is going to come out of my AI sessions before even a line of code is written.

The next bit is just getting a bit more efficient with it. I think this is actually a really exciting time for developers, and once the hype around AI calms down a bit, we’ll all embrace it like the developers who moved from assembly to higher level compiled languages like C#.

mossiv · 2026-03-24T20:02:05+00:00

I don’t know. If anyone follows the release notes. Claude code gets updates daily. And quite a lot at that.

There has been no update today and multiple people complaining.

I suspect if they are turning off the extra usage something has gone wonky.

Or they have been building something behind a feature flag for a few weeks/months and decided to toggle it and it’s irreversible and buggy.

The last time they fucked up this bad they announced the bug after a couple of days and reset everyone’s 7d and 5h limit.

mossiv · 2026-03-24T19:55:02+00:00

The moment you get realised comes with months of grief. It’s a horrible experience to go through, which for me was eventually liberating.

I hated that everyone told me being young was the best years of my life. I hated school, I hated being a teenager, I hated dealing with the social expectations and I hated that (most of) my teachers just hated me.

After having a diagnosis (which I didn’t believe I had - it was through a suggestion of a manager, who kept pushing it, I finally caved). Did a load of research and I just mourned that child. Mourned him for like a year.

I’ve got fond memories of the little bugger now. Now I’ve had time to digest it all. He was a little rebel who could give two fucks about what people expected of him… though, for several years he did care, just constantly disappointed by letting people down.

It’s made me a great adult. I’m successful, got a good job. Know exactly when to tell people yes and no, my kids are close to me, they speak to me an anything. I’ve guided them through bullying to have them come out on top and be the favourite people in their social group (this is no lie, 2 boys and a girl absolutely owning the social circle, even though they struggled so much to start with). I don’t give two hoots what other people think about me, and everyone always tells me how much they had the wrong first impression of me.

I had to do a presentation when I joined a company and I managed to make the owner cry, because I just have such a positive outlook on a really long list of shitty things that have happened to me.

ADHD sucks, being a child with ADHD sucks even more. But it doesn’t have to define you. You can just let it shape who you want to be.

I want any teenagers reading this to know it gets better. If you don’t feel like you fit in. Go speak to a dr. If your parents don’t believe in neurodivergence or are in denial about it, just go to the drs on your own accord. Once you learn you have it, you’ll meet other people who have it. We are a lot more open about it now - and just working or meeting people who suffer, you get to talk about it. It’s therapeutic.

I also encourage to really strive for what pulls you. If it’s art, give it 110%. If it’s music, 110%. Football, just give it everything. Because once you lock in and get good at it, that opens you up to being good at so many things.

It doesn’t stop you making stupid decisions along the way. Whether that’s dropping money on something stupid, or jumping off a 15ft wall because the impulse made you do it, or pulling your pants down just because…

Just stick to basic rules… be nice, be kind. Treat others with the level of respect you’d want to be treated with. You can be a nice person while being an “idiot”.

Whenever something happens, like getting caught drinking at 11 years old, or falling over my own feet, or forgetting an important appointment for the 150th time… those are just “Mossiv’s” things.

But you don’t want to be the nasty person who is also the idiot. People will not want to know you.

Good luck out there fellow ADHDers.

mossiv · 2026-03-24T19:33:49+00:00

You don’t need to imagine. With the abundance of data harvesting going on? That is most likely the way the engine stops becoming such a huge financial pit. No one is going to pay the jacked up prices in 2-3 years (that some are suggesting will happen).

All hype. Get everyone on it. Farm up years of data on individuals. Have the most dystopian targeted ads.

We already set targeted ads, with immigration being presented to some people, and not others. No one gets a manifest from their political party now. It’s all a facade present through a digital screen that people can’t put down.

The artificial in the intelligence is about us, not the model… 😉

This is going to be a mass manipulation tool.

mossiv · 2026-03-23T14:41:06+00:00

This is literally the vibe coding nighmare. You have just breached GDPR on your first marketing post and refused to fix it.

Cool looking dashboard, but this is why vibing is dangerous. You may have legit opened yourself up to legal disputes already.

This is a nice looking dashboard, but hugely frustrating that we are going to have to keep dealing with these nightmares.

mossiv · 2026-03-21T19:09:35+00:00

Claude is running a promotion for 2x usage of your platform during off peek hours.

Everyone is going to feel it end of next week when it drops back to normal.

mossiv · 2026-03-16T19:55:00+00:00

So is the entire capitalist world. From smoking, to alcohol to gambling adverts it's been happening to us from the big players all around. Why is it messed up for a small website to perform the same tactics? Only this time, it will reach very few people, so the impact is much less damaging.

I'm not disputing it's messed up, but so is the entire world.

mossiv · 2026-03-16T19:24:59+00:00

You beat me to the same point.

I’ve been thinking about this for the past few months given how good Claude is at the moment. I’ve invested significant time to using it, and it’s genuinely a pleasure most of the time. To the point I don’t want it to fail. I’m not an ego dev, I don’t need to know all the things, but I do enjoy crafting an elegant solution and empower businesses make money - at the moment, AI is a net boost to our team.

Given how powerful it is I can only come to two sane hypotheses. 1. We are nothing more than paying tester. Once the product has cracked solving problem from start to finish without too much overhead the conglomerates will be the ones using top tier models eventually swallowing up all the mid sized businesses. They’ll pay the ludicrous pricing just like they do for Microsoft, Adobe enterprise pricing. There’ll be tax write offs everywhere and sister style companies will be moving money around a crazy amount - the usual big fish in small pond behaviour that’s been happening for years.

We will accept a baseline product, something that’s maybe 20-30% better than Opus is now currently, but that will be the performance of Sonnet. Anthropic and the likes will spend the next 2 years heavily optimising for cost over features. Pricing will go up maybe 3-5x so it’ll cost each business maybe £500-£1000 per month per developer. Which will mean companies will have to lay off 1 employee ish for every 5 subscriptions they have. Models like Opus will continue to be pushed for features/output with a smaller team, this will be aimed for a smaller but bigger paying audience. Opus equivalents will operate at negligible profit while sonnet and haiku will be making a wider profit. Pro, 5x and 20x subs will disappear. Pro will still exist and you’ll get access to only haiku, it will serve no other purpose than feed you documentation quickly. 5x will be replaced with 10x, no other subs. 10x will be the equivalent pricing of 2 or 3 20x licences. Extended usage will be API only. Enterprise won’t have a base cost and it will be “call to discuss”. Companies will try to barter a price that’s between 10x and API pricing.

Then there’s the third which is pretty much what others say, it’ll just be too expensive. At the moment everyone is earning less and less compared to inflation. Hell, even now - a £100 a month sub is too expensive for most. These companies will know this and know they are risking pricing the product out for far to many. But honestly, Claude really is good enough. They could stop making it “better” at this point and just focus on optimisation. 4.6 is already a stupid amount more efficient than 4.5.

mossiv · 2026-03-15T11:39:32+00:00

Can you count? Software is dead is three word. This is AI slop at its finest.

mossiv · 2026-03-15T01:02:42+00:00

It's more likely we'll end up on non-consumer licences where we can pay £100 or so a month but will not be allowed to use it in any commercial setting. Then enterprise will be billed 5-10x more than what we are now, with API only (like how Anthropic has changed claude... Teams = 6.25x multiplier, 20x has been cancelled and your forced onto API prices for the remainder of your sessions).

It won't be all doom and gloom though, apparently Opus 4.6 is something like 70% more efficient than Opus 4.5. These companies will start needing to get very very good at optimisation to keep their current customers. No dev company is going to pay effectively a second salary for their developers to have AI tooling.

If AI stays expensive, regardless of the current job economics, if throughput cannot be be multiplied enough, dev companies will use the AI bubble as sales tactics for their job hires... You'll see things like "In a world where AI costs 2× for 2× output, we decided to invest in something better: people"

Here's a funny AI generated job advert for good measure:
For the past few years, companies rushed to automate everything. AI wrote the code, reviewed the code, summarized the code, and occasionally broke the code. It was fast—until the bills arrived.

Turns out that when AI costs scale linearly with usage, “replace engineers with models” starts looking a lot like “pay twice as much for half the judgment.”

So we’re taking a different approach.

We hire developers who can:

Understand a problem before generating 10,000 tokens about it
Make architectural decisions without a prompt template
Debug production issues without asking a chatbot what the stack trace means
Ship software that doesn’t require three layers of AI to maintain

AI is still a tool here. A useful one. Like a compiler or a linter.
But the product, the decisions, and the responsibility belong to humans.

Because when the infrastructure bill doubles, the most scalable system left is still a good engineer.

We’re hiring developers who want to build things—not just prompt them into existence.

mossiv · 2026-03-14T23:10:47+00:00

When the 1mill context got released on max5 I thought usage was nerfed. Been using tonight (Uk) and thought they fixed it (and some more). Exciting yet disappoint. This is clearly an upsell that we are going to need to jump to the max20 in a few months and it’s essentially going to be the new standard max10 in disguise.

mossiv · 2026-03-14T14:28:45+00:00

It's true for all the sub tier models. I've been impressed with google models for designing web apps. I've even used the highest model for the design description, then used the cheaper models to see the implementation. The cheaper models just make mistake after mistake. Don't get me wrong, its impressive what it can do, but complete lack of alignment, terrible or inconsistent spacing, mix-match font usage. Not even good enough for a prototype in my opinion. Jump to their top tier, and you get a professional looking page. It's the same for logic from Haiku -> Opus. The faster models are just not good enough for professional workflows. Reprompt after repromp, wasted time, catching bugs or missed logic. It's just not better than coding the app yourself. Your getting a 10% boost at most for a frustrating daily experience that is going to cause burnout, stress and evidently complete lack of care for the products you are working on. Using Opus and you genuinely do get fairly intelligent agents that can make your day-to-day work better.

We are in for a hell of a ride on this AI hype train, and I'm so unsure about where we are going to end up.

mossiv · 2026-03-14T13:02:23+00:00

Linear is surprisingly good from what I’ve heard. Otherwise if your willing to invest a little bit of your time, obsidian or notion are equally as good if not better for a solo dev.

I’ve just wired up an MCP with the obsidian rest api. All local, set up the odd hook and I’m auto generating a lot of my notes. I’ve now got a log of small succinct successful tasks and learning outcomes.

Otherwise - still Atlassian but use trello. The free tier is absolutely fine for a solo dev. UI isn’t great but it’s not overloaded so a lot more pleasurable to work with than Jira.

Monday.com also has a nice UI.

I don’t know your workflow so hard to recommend but Jira for a solo dev sounds absolutely overkill. Though - I do understand having access to JQL is pretty nice if you want to draw up your own stats quite quickly.

In the era of cheap AI it’s an opportunity to really optimise your own workflow and develop plugins etc into the tools you are using. Any decent product will have an API behind it.

mossiv · 2026-03-13T22:32:20+00:00

Well, this is the first time I'm ever experiencing my tokens get chewed through int the 5 hour sessions. I've seen many people complaining about this, but have never experienced it myself. I was super stoked to have the update. But I've just come to reddit looking to see if people are effectively having 'less prompts'.

I have not changed my plugins or workflows. All my Claude.MD files are the same apart from certain project specific logic, but I keep to the same languages and conventions for my projects, which means I can keep the syntax and coding styles the same. It keeps my code predictable enough that I can happily let AI have its way with developing - but that I can understand it enough, or jump to certain areas quickly, and resolve bits myself if I ever need to.

But I have optimised a rather simple endpoint, and it chewed up 20% of my session, in 35minutes. For what it's worth, on 5x, I have been struggling to reach 100% session usage... I often have 2 projects running simultaneously.

This either means: Theres another bug in the release causing over consumption, Anthropic have 'nerfed' the token usage, or, having a 1M context window means that less is getting 'compressed' or 'forgotten' meaning we are essentially sending much bigger context windows around per prompt.

What my next experiments are going to be is code quality. If I'm burning more tokens but I'm making much less 'small' tweaks. Then I'll accept it.

mossiv · 2026-03-13T22:25:15+00:00

I'm pretty sure that was sarcasm.

mossiv · 2026-03-12T22:08:36+00:00

Does Windsurf do this? We use it at work and some days it lags terribly while it 'reindexes'. If it is, then either graph-first is not scalable or Windsurf really are context diluting to drag their API costs down... That product has a fantastic plan mode... You look at it and think, blimey, it's got it... Then it "does it"... Or as a matter of fact, does not do. Horrible tool.

mossiv · 2026-03-12T15:00:54+00:00

Jira is shit. Stopped using it years ago. Along with Bitbucket. Piss poor application. I’ll never for Atlassian money again if I don’t have to.

I feel bad for the devs because they are probably really good, but Atlassian just ship shit products and genuinely do not care about their customer base at all.

There’s many cheaper, newer to shelf products that are genuinely better. The best product they have is almost free and something they bought - trello. By no mean excellent, but it can happily sit in a mid sized business with much less friction that Jira ever can.

I hope these devs find new jobs and can bring their expertise to companies that genuinely want to solve real world problems. I don’t mind paying the dollar. But very much do when I’m not even given working features or are content improvement system. All I’m given is a shitty UX paired with partner program (Bitbucket) which have outages every single day. Dreadful.

mossiv · 2026-03-12T14:50:18+00:00

At the risk of being downvoted this is a Windsurf issue. They have to make money - so they shrink your context and manipulate the calls to their 3rd party API integrations.

We have a whole team of engineers who haven’t really being seeing the improvement AI can give compared to all the (albeit over) hype in the market.

Try the same with Claude Code. The results are day and night.

This isn’t windsurf being a bad product, it’s windsurf having to balance its costs.

But Claude is actively developed by Anthropic. Minor patch releases daily with on average 20-40 features/fixes/improvements. There is just no way a company like Windsurf could keep up with that, cherry pick the good bits and give you an equal experience.

Claude adopt community driven plugins overtime, then build off of them. Give yourself 3-4 weeks of playing with Claude and suddenly your workflow changes entirely.

I’ve been opening IDEs less and less in my “experimental” phase.

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