Or try to beat Anthropic's uptime.

I was fortunate to be taught by my father when I was younger. It may be an age/luck-of-the-draw thing, but check out "MILD"; it's the name for the simple technique that worked for me.

I agree. If compute is the issue and pricing can't budge then something has to give.

They would have kept my business if they were honest and upfront. Instead they sold me something that worked well, broke it without warning, remained silent about it until enough people caught on, chose to do nothing, then proceeded to release a model that eats ~30% more tokens with no advantage over prior models.

If they chose to unbrick their model and offered what we had a couple months ago at a 50% hike, I would have been onboard. I've seen enough now of how this company treats its customers to continue using or recommending them.

Also, Codex works much better than CC now for anyone who happens to be on the fence.

Codex actually feels severely lacking to me, trying to switch off Claude Code. I'm trying every day. The models honestly feel on par, but the Harness and the CLI are somewhat painful to work with.

Yeah, fair. I should've specifically asked for CC/adaptive-thinking to be returned to a working state and not the model itself.

Plus one. I held off for too long out of concern that it wouldn't stack up and I'd come right back to Anthropic.

I switched a few days ago and work has been much less frustrating. Feels like CC did back in February before they started playing games.

It also doesn't eat nearly as many tokens, so it's saving me $100/mo.

Same, after being a long-time proponent too.

First was the CC adaptive thinking change, then 4.7. Even with `/effort max` and keeping under 20% of 1M context, the quality degradation is obvious.

I don't understand their strategy here.

I've taken time off work to follow something I've always dreamed of doing. So I'm building Cella, A cross-platform, 3D space MMO game set in a procedural, animated universe with fully composable ships & structures built using functional cells.

https://cellagame.com/

I'm looking for artists to help fulfill the vision.

Can confirm. Max effort helps; limiting context <= ~20-25% is crucial anymore.

> * keep active sessions active. It seems like caches are expiring after ~5 minutes (especially during peak usage). When the caches expire it sees like all tokens need to be rebuilt this gets especially bad as token usage goes up.

Is this as opaque on their end as it sounds, or is there a way to check?

This is exactly what I'm seeing in working with companies in Belgium, Germany and France.

It's not just about costs- managers are actively seeking to distance themselves from everything US.

We've stopped treating them like allies. Who's to blame them?

Same, I'm looking hard for an alternative to what I had.

And I'm seeing the same thing in my sphere- everyone is bailing Anthropic the past few weeks. I figure that's why we're seeing more posts like this.

I hope they're paying attention.

Same.

I'll have it create a handoff document well before it hits 50% and it seems to help.

Most of our team has moved to cursor or codex since the March downgrade (https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/42796)