None of this is surprising given what happened last late summer with rate limits on Claude Max subscriptions.

And less so if you read [1] or similar assessments. I, too, believe that every token is subsidized heavily. From whatever angle you look at it.

Thusly quality/token/whatever rug pulls are inevitable, eventually. This is just another one.

[1] https://www.wheresyoured.at/subprimeai/

Ah, and yes, this for real.

Just now I had a bug where a 90 degree image rotation in a crate I wrote was implemented wrong.

I told Claude to find & fix and it found the broken function but then went on to fix all of its call sites (inserting two atomic operations there, i.e. the opposite of DRY). Instead of fixing the root cause, the wrong function.

And yes, that would not have happened a few months ago.

This was on Opus 4.6 with effort high on a pretty fresh context. Go figure.