Ouch. I've just been building a tool to go through my historic usage. I'm only on the Max 5x plan, and I only use about 40% of my weekly usage allowance. But it looks like even that usage would now cost me $1000/month of API usage under the new plan. That's a 10x price increase.

At least we've got clarity now? But a lot of my value comes from "claude -p" usage, either scheduled tasks while I'm asleep, or responding to incoming emails / voicetexts. Even the email replies will barely fit in $100/month. I'm not going to pay $1000 / month, so I guess it really is time for me to look at the competition and move my programmatic usage to them.

Man, I love the Claude models, and the whole idea of constitutional AI. We built a lot of tools & infrastructure together, but kept a lot of logs as well. I'll be really sad if I mostly have to move on now.

Better link:

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15036540-use-the-clau...

This sucks. I use Claude -p over tailscale to code over voice when I’m on the go for accessibility reasons, and most of the time I do the same while at the computer. Running through $200 in API pricing takes no time. Oh well, time to switch providers I guess.

XCancel (alternative Twitter frontend) link: https://xcancel.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2054610152817619388

I think that this is much better than the previous situation with total lack of clarity on what is allowed and what isn't.

Switched to Codex a few days ago and not regretting it. Claude Code with the $20 subscription has been bad lately. Burning through quota in no time, even when sticking to older Sonnet models.

Goodbye! Codex is better anyway!

So basically local LLMs are rapidly improving to the point where they can handle many of the automation or local coding use cases on reasonable hardware (say $5k or less). What's the edge for frontier model providers here?

Does anyone know if this will impact ACP invoking Claude? IE using Claude from zed. I assume not but looking for confirmation

Guess we're no short of reasons to stick to Codex.

When AOL was released, they marketed unlimited, how have times changed with Claude limits.

Inb4 future Claude developer workflow (REQUIRED to save 90% of token $):

- The AI gives human prompts to copy-paste into Claude Code

- Human copy prompts into Claude Code

- The AI reads output from Claude Code

non-x link: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15036540-use-the-clau...

I use `claude -p` interactively -- I understand why they put it under this new umbrella, but having to open the fullscreen interface each time to not be counted as a programmatic tool is a little disappointing.

Just stop using claude. It's easy. Grab pi, some provider with open weights, cheaper inference or a more permissive subscription plan, (openai, Alibaba, deepseek, what have you) and never look back.

This is annoying because tools like conductor use the SDK. So this will either be the end of conductor for me or I switch to codex. Interesting dilemma.

rip conductor :(

codex W

They're definitely aiming their sights at people who automate things. Which is to say: programmers.

Which is interesting, since you'd also think that programmers would be their primary customers.

Can someone explain in plain English please.

The anthropic enshittification continues.