alt Hacker NewsClaude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion
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The 'tokenmaxxing' and the extreme gambling fiesta with Anthropic's latest Claude Code slot machine engine called 'Fable 5' which has given many subsidies and free spins of the wheel and cheaper tokens are all incompatible with the desires of their future owner: Wall Street.
If Wall Street sees a single outage or a tiny drop in usage, they won't be happy and will pressure Anthropic to take away the free tokens.
Better to reduce the limits now rather than to wait until Wall St. tells them to just to avoid a stock punishment.
you guys are jumpy... relax
The "...aaaand it's gone" meme now applies to tokens and money at the same time. Clever AI future we live in!
And in the end, selling tokens ENCOURAGES the companies to sell more tokens. And how do they sell more tokens?
"Thinking" aka 'trust us bro!' without proof of thinking.
Making the model waste more tokens.
Advertisement: aka you pay to be advertised at.
Silently downgrading you and still faking models with the more costly tokens.
Intentional strategies to eat more tokens with no real gains.
Giving out almost-but-not-quite solutions that require another pull of the slo(t/p) machine.
Yet another scramble to use up weekly quota before an Anthropic cliff. This isn't fun.
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Quite a number of the smartest people I know got scalped to work at OpenAI. I don’t know anyone who went to Anthropic. Something I think which is under emphasized is that OpenAI has the human capital in addition to the financial capital advantage over Anthropic.
Over the long term I think OpenAI will produce the better experience when it comes to model quality, harness quality, and availability. I have been using codex the past few months and never looked back.
If Anthropic doesn't figure out why OpenAI is eating their lunch, they're in some trouble. I'm guessing they already know why, but aren't able to accept that they won't somehow come out #1. Or in fact they really believe they will still come out #1. Delusion?