Anthropic A/Bs my weekly quota amount. So I have an automated prompt that runs at 3 AM with a transcription task, I measure input and output tokens, and weekly/5 hour quota before and after. The absolute token counts stay within 0.1% while in mode A it counts for 1% of my 5 hour quota and mode B 4% of my 5 hour quota.

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jacquesm 30 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

How did pissing off your customers ever become a business model?

I can't imagine sticking with a supplier that plays games like that with me. Tokens are a pretty vague quantity to begin with (you don't control how many tokens a model puts out in response) and giving a couple of purposefully wrong responses will happily inflate your bill, but you don't care because eventually it worked. It's almost an ideal vehicle to scam people.

Imagine the power company being able to decide how much you consume and at which price point.

	▲	herval 19 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> How did pissing off your customers ever become a business model? Airlines, banks, health insurance…

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apitman an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Do Anthropic quotas give you precise remaining token counts or something? I have something similar set up for tracking my ChatGPT usage but it only gives percentages remaining, which is a pretty coarse metric.

	▲	ffsm8 11 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Claude code supposedly has otel you can set via env. I haven't set it up, so I'm just repeating hearsay.. but it supposedly has everything relevant in it wrt token usage and cost It's meant for their test env I think, so is not documented to my knowledge

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braingravy an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Pretty amazing to see enshitification happen live with a product still in development… Truly web 4.0

	▲	LimitExperience 25 minutes ago \| parent [-]
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