Why tech companies never price things according to what they really cost. This new strategy of entering the market at a loss and then cranking up prices is getting old.

At risk of getting defenestrated (or worse, expelled...) getting a permanent 25% increase sounds good over a 50% temporal increase. Imagine if this was your wage you were talking about, wouldn't you rather the 25% perm?

I use only Fable High as well. 8 hour workday, it does my job, straight up. I only supervise. Mostly frontend and in particular, mobile, where Fable (Claude in general) is quite better than the competition, in my opinion of course.

I also use it for managing a company's website separate from my job, and my own website. And for daily studying of an unrelated university career + daily personal use. For all the ones in the current paragraph I use Opus 5 xhigh.

I don't think I've ever gotten even to 50% of the (currently augmented) levels. A 25% permanent increase is good in my books.

I mean, what? I just got the memo that we're in operation Complain and Destroy. This is horrible! I will now go buy my Torch&Pitchfork two-pack for 17% off.

I subscribed to Claude Pro for one month earlier this year. The subscription lasts as long as you chat with it in the UI. The moment you use Claude Code, it becomes useless and you keep hitting limits. So, great for hammering out a specification, not so great for actually writing and debugging code.

I have a lot of hobby projects and cannot afford to drop $200/m for assistance from LLMs with above average intelligence. The Chinese models work quite well, and are cost effective, in comparison. My usage over the last few months:

- Gemini / AI Studio = translations

- Kimi 2.5 / OpenCode Go = Compiler/VM project, AI for some board games, a new document format and compiler for it,

- DS4 Flash / DeepSeek (had some credits lying around) + OpenCode Go = Template-based OCR engine

- MiMo 2.5 and MuseSpark 1.2 Contributor = The OCR engine + a product I am brainstorming + a lot of single page tools

If you select models judiciously, and can write good AGENTS.md and extremely short but potent ARCHITECTURE.md documents, the $10 you pay to OpenCode Go will last a long while even when you consume a hundreds of millions of tokens (mostly cache hits) a day. You can get multiple models to perform code review of modules against the ARCHITECTURE you have specified and get other models to execute the fixes.

I pay a $100 subscription which feels infinite for me, even using only fable... 2 weeks ago I started getting notifications of running out of credit... to me it feels more like 30% than 17%... OHHHH and surprise, I'm in my 50% boosted/higher limits... so this means I'll probably hit the $100 limit now constantly... I use the thing a bit... yesterday and it shows 14% of the week allocation used...

Meanwhile OpenAI resets everyone's weekly Codex limits back to 100% seemingly every other day as a kind of game.

Glad that I canceled my sub

I have no problem here. If I notice that I'm getting markedly less than before, I'll just switch to Z.ai/GLM. Been on the edge for a while now just waiting for something to push me over.

What is going on? Why are everyone except OpenAI short on compute?

Even Chinese ultra cheap providers are slowly reducing token plans or increasing prices.

Interesting wording:

  [...] that will make it feel like you’re getting more from Claude

Another week, another case of getting jerked around by Anthropic… I’m tired of my $200 subscription changing or threatening to change every 2 weeks or less. Not that I think OpenAI and “resets” is a life I want to live either. I guess we will see if they go through with this or if the backlash stops them, again.

"...there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week..."

Previously on the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49491631

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49491282