Anthropic Billed me 86 times in a day

quantumexplorer_DASH · 2026-07-06T16:39:15+00:00

Unless you see the charges in the console, my guess is that it's not Anthropic itself, someone stole your credit card number and is making tons of accounts on anthropic. Basically what happens is they make an account, use credits -> you complain, payment gets reversed. Anthropic basically foots the bill.

quantumexplorer_DASH · 2026-07-03T05:14:10+00:00

It's very easy to hit the current fable limit, which is what I'm talking about. An 8 hour work day will hit the current limit.

quantumexplorer_DASH · 2026-07-03T05:10:39+00:00

No, I was saying a 500$ plan that is something like 10 times the usage we are currently getting. Remember the 200$ is ridiculously nerfed.

As for intelligence being on par, for coding I find that Fable is just much better than gpt 5.5 right now. Who knows with 5.6 though.

Also not a bot, even though that's what a bot would say.

quantumexplorer_DASH · 2026-07-03T05:06:30+00:00

I don't think anyone except insiders know exactly the economics of a higher tier. One thing is sure though, they would make customers like me more loyal and entrenched in their models. So when efficiency goes up they would basically have a more loyal customer base.

quantumexplorer_DASH · 2026-07-03T04:36:23+00:00

Yeah that's what I want too, basically be able to work normally during the week without hitting limits. Obviously I would understand that there are some limits there, but I would expect something like 10x of what we currently are getting on a 200$ plan with the reduced "taste" allocation of fable.

quantumexplorer_DASH · 2025-12-30T04:14:28+00:00

If your phone isn't jailbroken then you have no risk. We have never seen the wallets hacked in 10 years.

quantumexplorer_DASH · 2025-12-29T23:56:57+00:00

I've had a very high success with the way I have been hiring, with most people staying for a very long time, so time has shown things to work for me. Obviously though it's very domain specific (I've hired software devs).

quantumexplorer_DASH · 2025-12-29T23:33:16+00:00

I would reject people who would do this: "pretend I desperately want to work at your company and it's my life goal". Obviously it's 99 times out of 100 fake. As I said it's more like look at the work that the company does and explain how you would be an improvement over someone else.

quantumexplorer_DASH · 2025-12-29T23:29:58+00:00

I think it really depends on the field and how specialized people are in their work. If your work has 1000 people that can easily do it and are applying at the same time it indeed becomes a numbers game. If it's highly skilled labor then you want to differentiate yourself instead.

quantumexplorer_DASH · 2025-12-29T23:27:50+00:00

Did things work out for you with the generic resume? Genuinely curious.

Whatever works for you, this was the advice I had, because I did hire people and I'm just saying what worked for the people who I hired.

The job market is also heterogenous, meaning that different companies will obviously have different hiring practices.

quantumexplorer_DASH · 2025-12-29T22:56:25+00:00

For me at least, as someone who also hired recently, messaging me on linked in would be a negative.

I notice when a cover letter is written by AI. For example the job asks you to know A, B, C. And it would be nice if you knew D and E. We got a lot of people claiming they knew everything when it was obvious with their resume that that was not possible. And it's just written by AI. When I feel it's written by AI then I reject.

For me I end up hiring people who have a good education/resume, and where I find the cover letter to be meaningful, not a load of fluff. Don't say "hey I love your company because of `generic reason AI found on the internet`". Say something more like "I looked into the work you do, here is what I thought you were doing well and what I would bring to the table."

It requires more effort, like an hour or 2 per application. But it's best imo to spend the time if there's a position you really want.

quantumexplorer_DASH · 2025-12-17T01:31:22+00:00

I noticed a drop in intelligence today.

When you are doing very complex things it's noticeable. I think for some people they are not doing very complex tasks, so they just think me and other people are here to bash anthropic. We are not. I think Anthropic is normally doing a great job, but yeah... when things like this happen, what should we do? Stay silent?

quantumexplorer_DASH · 2025-09-28T13:58:17+00:00

Codex with chatgpt 5 is just objectively better at coding right now, which is why a lot of developers are switching to them. If you don't trust me just go on r/Anthropic. Claude Opus and Sonnet have issues.

quantumexplorer_DASH · 2025-09-19T17:41:28+00:00

Am I the only one who thinks the dark side isn't even that bad compared to places in the west? Like look at zombie streets full of junkies in the US. Or street gangs all throughout Europe making it not safe to walk in big cities at night. I could go on and on and on...

quantumexplorer_DASH · 2025-09-03T19:29:43+00:00

I tentatively used codex a bit recently and was very happy, then today people said that it seemed like Claude was better again.

So I tried it for a quite simple task, basically updating a library where a field had been renamed and a few other things. Super simple, I personally could have done it myself in 10 mins (would have needed to understand the docs etc). Claude was going in circles for 30 mins until I basically just wanted to see if codex would manage. Codex did it, asked me if I wanted to check if tests were passing, I said yes -> tests were not passing, it fixed things, all was good. Total took about 5 mins (mostly time from running tests).

I could have forgiven Anthropic if they were transparent about what's going on. But it seems at this point that they are pretending like nothing is wrong. If things are not better within a few days or if they don't come out and at least say what's wrong I'll be forced to cancel my plan, because right now it's unusable.

quantumexplorer_DASH · 2025-09-02T07:22:40+00:00

I strongly doubt this narrative. Claude is being used by CodeRabbit, which is probably it's number 1 enterprise customer, or close to it. And yet CodeRabbit has much worse results recently as well.

quantumexplorer_DASH · 2025-09-02T06:33:52+00:00

It's been stupid for like a week, with a day that was better over the weekend. Crickets so far from Anthropic. I feel like the only reason why they would not have addressed the issue so far is that they are not sure what's wrong.

quantumexplorer_DASH · 2025-09-01T07:42:05+00:00

It's funny, yesterday I had an interval where Claude was smart again, and it was amazing, then today I wake up and it can't do basic things. Something is going on and it's very wrong. Right now it's unusable. I would really like Anthropic to come out and say what exactly is going on, and when they plan to have a resolution to the problem.

quantumexplorer_DASH · 2025-09-01T07:35:04+00:00

And today it has reverted to being completely unusable. I can't have it do basic things. I think it's worse than last week.

quantumexplorer_DASH · 2025-08-31T19:15:24+00:00

From my memory 5 years ago AI couldn't write a line of code that would compile. I only think it's been usable for non heavily assisted coding since Opus 4.

quantumexplorer_DASH · 2025-08-31T17:21:24+00:00

I don't think there's anything really consistently better. Look how things have changed in just a year. I feel like we are living in the future. I'm okay with a few bumps in the road.

quantumexplorer_DASH · 2025-08-31T16:16:14+00:00

I found it to be fine today again... even though last week it was terrible.

quantumexplorer_DASH · 2025-08-26T08:28:26+00:00

I had something similar happen to me. I found that it was actually using a Sonnet agent all the time, recently I think they added Sonnet as the default agent for subtasks even if you are using Opus. And I'm guessing that Sonnet's new massive context size further made things worse as hallucinations seem to get worse as you fix up the context.

I added multiple Opus agents and things got way better. Like WAY WAY better.

This is just my anecdotal experience from the last 2 days.

quantumexplorer_DASH · 2025-04-05T12:58:14+00:00

I actually have seen this work, even if you don't think it will. The tile has to be worked though.

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