I see bigger problem with model inconsistency. You never know whether Anthropic will route your request to a cheaper model for the price of Opus. So you can never estimate how much a task will cost, because you might have to restart several times and pay for each attempt. Then you have to prompt models to gauge whether they are real or impostors which also adds to token usage.

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ignoramous 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> You never know whether Anthropic will route your request to a cheaper model for the price of Opus

For non subsidized plans? Pretty sure they'd need to put this in ToS, or law suites would have followed by now.

	▲	trollbridge 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		How can you prove it? Sometimes Opus just gives me a rubbish session.
	▲	sometimelurker an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		no they 100% use MTP with a cheaper model alongside opus, and it would infact be unprovable if they just sometimes switched to auto-accepting everything from the MTP. its true that if they did anthropic would need to hide that they do this, so its probably not a huge deal