alt Hacker Newsinteresting to see feature launches are coming via official website while usage restrictions are coming in with a team member's twitter account - https://x.com/trq212/status/2037254607001559305.
also, someone rightly predicted this rugpull coming in when they announced 2x usage - https://x.com/Pranit/status/2033043924294439147
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If you use the cloud providers you accept this and more.
If you want stability, own the means of inference and buy a Mac Studio or Strix Halo computer.
Funnily, Anthropic's pricing etc. why I'm using GLM-5 a bunch more outside of work. Definitely not Opus level, but surprisingly decent. Though I got lucky and got the Alibaba Coding Model lite plan, which is so cheap they got rid of it
If you read the replies to the second, you’ll see an engineer on Claude Code at Anthropic saying that it is false.
Someone spread FUD on the internet, incorrectly, and now others are spreading it without verifying.
To me it makes perfect sense for them to encourage people to do this, rather than eg making things more expensive for everyone.
The same as charging a different toll price on the road depending on the time of day.