"We can raise prices in two ways: (1) raise the price per token and (2) increase the number of tokens we generate on your behalf. We promise not to do (2) maliciously. Promise."

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conradkay 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I think the incentives are less bad since a good chunk of usage comes from subscription plans.

There was a fairly major regression in Claude Code performance for some time when they changed the system prompt to try and make it less verbose (saving tokens). And if I'm not misremembering, there were a lot of complaints when they changed the default effort from high to medium.

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squeegmeister 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Wouldn't it be more malicious for them not to mention this at all?

	▲	Alifatisk 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Sure, but I think doing it this way allows them to later on say they were transparent about it. Completely hiding this would make it very difficult for them excuse when getting caught.