Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

Too little, too late. I'd rather have a consistent, dumber model than sometimes excellent but often miserable Claude.

Staying with Claude is like going back to the restaurant where you got food poisoning: you kinda get what you deserve next time you get sick.

I would have preferred an increase in the weekly limits instead of the 5-hour limits.

Reading the comments here again surprises me how in an anti-Elon bubble most folks are. They are renting out spare Colossus 1 capacity. Colossus 2 is still coming online. Orbital data centers are really the plan in the next few years. XAi is still behind, but not a disaster considering how late they entered (and Elon’s unfortunate fixation on anime characters).

SpaceX is extremely uniquely positioned to crush the rest of the world combined in order to orbital data centers.

xAI (part of SpaceX) using just 11 percent of GPUs[1]

1. https://wccftech.com/xai-using-just-11-percent-gpus-while-me...

I mean... seems like a no-brainer

> First, we’re doubling Claude Code’s five-hour rate limits for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans.

Ok I guess, this was a bit of a hassle, but you're not increasing my weekly allowance, you're just not annoying me as often.

> Second, we’re removing the peak hours limit reduction on Claude Code for Pro and Max accounts.

It wasn't a limit reduction (as in, I didn't have a lower 5-hour limit), it was "tokens are more expensive" and it ate my weekly limits faster. This should never have been instituted to begin with.

> Third, we’re raising our API rate limits considerably for Claude Opus models, as shown in the table below:

Meh.

This is why I don't care for all the "it's a subscription, you're free to not use it!" arguments here. It's not an all-you-can-eat subscription with some generous fair use limits, it's a "X tokens per month for $Y", and they keep lowering the X unilaterally and in secret.

Anthropic aligning with the guy who got Trump elected means they are dead to me.

I'm posting immediately after cancelling my claude subscriptions.

So now Elon Musk gets to read all of our Claude conversations?? :-(

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> As part of this agreement, we have also expressed interest in partnering with SpaceX to develop multiple gigawatts of orbital AI compute capacity.

Disgusting. For an allegedly not evil company, they’re very willing to pollute our night skies as well as partner up with a CEO who has been fanning the flames of extremism (particularly the emboldened racists / supremacists of the far right).

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Give them whatever they need. Time to go to the moon.

The politics and economics of Musk throwing some support towards Anthropic is interesting (samma is probably pissed).

But, if you will pardon a little rant: I hate the idea of subscription inference plans and also 'dumping' by subsidizing non-profitable products. Inferencing should be pay as you go and dumping illegal.