> When was the last time they declined your subscription because they have no compute?
Is that a serious question? There have been a bunch of obvious signs in recent weeks they are significantly compute constrained and current revenue isn't adequate ranging from myriad reports of model regression ('Claude is getting dumber/slower') to today's announcement which first claims 4.7 the same price as 4.6 but later discloses "the same input can map to more tokens—roughly 1.0–1.35× depending on the content type. Second, Opus 4.7 thinks more at higher effort levels, particularly on later turns in agentic settings. This improves its reliability on hard problems, but it does mean it produces more output tokens" and "we’ve raised the default effort level to xhigh for all plans" and disclosing that all images are now processed at higher resolution which uses a lot more tokens.
In addition to the changes in performance, usage and consumption costs users can see, people say they are 'optimizing' opaque under-the-hood parameters as well. Hell, I'm still just a light user of their free web chat (Sonnet 4.6) and even that started getting noticeably slower/dumber a few weeks ago. Over months of casual use I ran into their free tier limits exactly twice. In the past week I've hit them every day, despite being especially light-use days. Two days ago the free web chat was overloaded for a couple hours ("Claude is unavailable now. Try again later"). Yesterday, I hit the free limit after literally five questions, two were revising an 8 line JS script and and three were on current news.
Just last week. They cut off openclaw. And they added a price increased fast mode. And they announced today new features that are not included with max subscriptions.
They are short 5GW roughly and scrambling to add it.
Mate. None of the companies is worth such stress. I feel rage in you. It is just a tool. You choose what works best. That's it. No need to overthink it.
A smartphone is a tool that is all but required for modern life, it gets it's hooks into every detail of your life, and you have very little choice in providers, features, and functions. It makes a lot less sense to not care like this.
Not the person to whom you're responding, but for me, some of the heavy hitters:
- Real-time weather alerts (I spend a lot of time in a naked Jeep in the summer, it's helpful to know when rain is imminent)
- Work-related authentication
- Audiobooks
- High quality, always available camera with quick editing and instant sharing capabilities
- GPS tracking when I'm exploring
- Find restaurants, museums, hotels when I'm traveling
- Pay for nearly anything (credit cards are useful but more time-consuming, and pulling them out frequently is a minor friction point that I'm grateful to leave behind)
That's curious. What do you mean by /almost/ impossible? Slightly more inconvenient / would have to visit a branch one time?
In the UK card readers are still widely supported by traditional banks. As is SMS for one time codes. People who think fintech banks are the only ones that exist might have a warped view on reality of course
i mean that i don't know of a single bank in my country that still offers physical tokens. I'm sure there is at least one and you have to go through hoops.
I left my previous main bank after they retired the tokens and mandated the app use, which required biometrics.
Current main bank is not so bad, but i'm not sure if the app works without google play integrity (at least it doesn't mind developer mode / unlocked bootloader)
That sucks. The UK gets a lot of stick for being 'stuck in the past' sometimes but when I hear things like that, I'm totally OK with it. We can even do proxy banking at a Post Office ! [0]
At least we don't currently require a US tech company (Apple | Google) to give their blessing to people to have a bank account :-)
Though I'm sure your country's set up will be ours before too long...
What set it apart was the out of the way UX and clean fast experience. It was a real time kernal to boot. I think korg used it on some of their synth products or something even.
To me the UX and experience on it was (still) ahead of its time. It ran stuff on a Pentium 90 like it was a 400mhz beast running NT.
If you ever try a mac laptop - there is simply no way back. I've got top tier Lenovo and Dell - the build quality is just incomparable. And that is sad. They may have edge on separate components - e.g. a gorgeous screen,but not the combination of it all.
True. Some people announce their OSS project and upload it to package management the day they start. While I develop something for two years and still find myself hesitatkng whether it’s good enough to announce.
This has nothing to do with part price. They sell for what people pay. And this new neo is for putting scale, but 8gb means you get hooked and then "climb the ladder"
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