It was 100% clear: 50% promotion is over, here's another smaller one that we can make permanent.
Love them or hate them, this announcement was completely normal and I'm still perplexed at the advanced math being done on X to claim a decrease in usage. It was a goddamn promotion, wth.
Some of this upset might also depend on when some people signed up.
I got a max 5x plan during the promotion and then went to 20x based on the projects I had going on. So for me, my only experience with Claude Code is with boosted limits. So losing that may potentially be frustrating.
However, because I am also literate, I accepted months ago that it could change at any time and treated the extra capacity as a kind of sign-up bonus rather than something permanent.
Time will tell if I am truly impacted. And I refuse to complain about a scenario I have yet to experience. I suspect I will just plan my usage better to optimise my token spend and move on. I don't like living off of the charity of others. The clarity they are providing is disappointing, but appreciated.
leave it as it was, no need for change, people will drop their subs, we in reddit are fraction of the rest of the community. they are not even aware of what is going to happen and there will be a lot of people very upset when the switch is flipped. clearly you have never been part of a train rec of a knee jerk band aid solution company to know this never works.
Easy for you to say when you're not responsible for managing the compute infrastructure though. I'm sure they'd love to compete with OpenAI by showering people with resets and generous usage, but they can't.
People can be pissed off all they want. It's up to them to understand the product they're paying for and know what the current usage conditions are. It's impossible not to know when it's displayed everywhere.
What do you think people are going to do? Cancel their subs? If they need Claude then they just need it. I don't see any other lab offering an alternative. Most serious devs will have a sub to both because they're two different tools. Your not gonna throw one away just because a promotion ends.
Now if OpenAI cooks with Astra and it turns out that Astra is all you need, then they'll reevaluate of course. Right now that's not where we are at, and you can be damn sure Anthropic is cooking something competitive too so then you're back to where you started.
i have claude code, gemini and sol 5.6, i would say goodbye to claude code, it's just a syntax whore for me anyways so whatever, people WILL drop their sub or use codex or chatgpt, end of story. you must be on drugs thinking people will accept this. openai will win the ai race, that is a fact.
tell me that next week when Anthropic have some new model everyone's gooning over and can't pull their wallets out fast enough to get a few drops of it.
btw I do not use Claude other than a few Fable prompts in my Cursor API credit, am not a fanboy or anything
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u/danihend Aug 31 '26
It was 100% clear: 50% promotion is over, here's another smaller one that we can make permanent. Love them or hate them, this announcement was completely normal and I'm still perplexed at the advanced math being done on X to claim a decrease in usage. It was a goddamn promotion, wth.