I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support

Posted by y42 2 days ago

I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support(nickyreinert.de)

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postepowanieadm 2 days ago|

Yeah, session limits are kinda show stoppers.

spaceman_2020 2 days ago||

4.7 is the breaking point for me

It's almost unusable

zh_code 2 days ago||

I just cancelled my Max20 plan yesterday.

rvz 2 days ago||

The great de-skilling programme continues in Anthropic's casino. They completely want you dependent on gambling tokens on their slot machines with extortionate prices, fees and limits.

Anthropic can't even scale their own infrastructure operations, because it does not exist and they do not have the compute; even when they are losing tens of billions and can nerf models when they feel like it.

Once again, local models are the answer and Anthropic continues to get you addicted to their casino instead of running your own cheaper slot machine, which you save your money.

Every time you go to Anthropic's casino, the house always wins.

fractalf 21 hours ago||

Hehe me too. Yesterday. Enough is enough. Using KLM5.1 and soon deepseek

r00t- 2 days ago||

Same, it's a mess.

danjl 2 days ago||

This sounds just like all my neighbors complaining about their internet provider.

system2 2 days ago||

Same here. The single prompt burnt all my tokens in 3 minutes for the day. What happened to Claude in the last 2 months? I was happy with what they were providing and was happy to pay whatever for it. Why did they mess with it? Why are they destroying the tool we all loved?

I hate enshittification and I hate seeing this happening to Claude Code right now.

mwigdahl 2 days ago|

What level of subscription are you on? If you're complaining about running out of tokens but are happy to pay "whatever" for it, it should be Max 20x, yes? And one prompt drained all your tokens for the day on Max 20x?

system2 2 days ago||

I am on max 10x ($100 a month). I asked it to summarize a small codebase (2000 lines). Instead, it ran 4 agents in the background, and those agents went nuts, started reading everything and related dependencies, and sucked all my daily quota, forcing me to wait till 2 AM to continue using.

Up until last month, a $100 plan was more than enough, and it was difficult to run out of tokens per day for me. Something fundamentally changed, and Claude started making more mistakes and using more tokens. I know I am not tripping because I used it for over a year; this is absolutely new.

mwigdahl 2 days ago|||

Agreed, and sorry for the snarky tone in my reply. The $100 / month plan is what I use at home and it has always been more than sufficient for something like what you describe. It does sound like maybe you have MCPs or skills that might be changing the default behavior as the other poster suggests, or the agent somehow interpreted your request as wanting it to read node_modules in addition to the code or something. In any event I hope you or Anthropic or both figures out what the issue was.

gitaarik 2 days ago|||

Maybe you need to clean up MCP tools? My codebase is very large (hundreds of files, hundreds of lines per file), and I am managing fine on a 5x subscription, chatting all day.

Some time ago I cleaned up a bunch of MCP tools I had installed some time ago and that did make a significant impact on token usage.

system2 2 days ago||

Thanks, I will definitely check them out.

gizmodo59 2 days ago||

Codex is becoming such a good product. I have the 100$ pro lite. I have Claude still but 20$. I rarely use it. Let’s see if they give generous limits and more importantly a model that’s better than 5.5. The mythos fear mongering did not give me a good impression that they care about the average developer.

queuebert 2 days ago|

Maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but I think choosing which companies to support during this period of pre-alignment is one way to vote which direction this all goes. I'm happy to accept a slightly worse coding agent if it means I don't get exterminated someday.

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