I noticed they reset the usage and I was kind of happy because this week it was using my quota much faster; I assumed they fixed that. Apparently it is for the celebration of 5.1?
They dropped your usage limit by 17% this week .. They claimed to "raise" it, because they did ... while also removing the temporary increase they applied for a few weeks ... but the net effect is you can use 17% less than you could last week.
On top of that, recent versions of Claude had a ton of tools added, and all those tools use up significantly more context/usage than before, so the moment you open a Claude session you are already using a lot more (I forget how much more) usage ... just to do the same exact thing you did last week.
Plenty of people were buying it before it has a marketing association with transgenderism, and then they suddenly stopped because they didn't want to give any money to transgender causes.
Neither do I, but I hate authoritarianism (and hypocrisy) even more. People are free to have different opinions than mine, and I will defend their right to do so.
People are free to have their opinions, that doesn't mean you need to fund them. If you don't at least on some level agree with the politics, why are you giving them your money?
I fear you're hopelessly blind to your hypocrisy, there is no way you are only giving your money to people you agree with politically.
And there is more to life than politics, even though I feel it's hard to understand in the current hysterical climate of social media echo chambers and US politics. It is honestly terrifying to live in a world where most hope everyone else would conform and have the exact same perspective of the world as them, else they get accused of wrongthink.
> there is no way you are only giving your money to people you agree with politically
Obviously not. And?
> And there is more to life than politics
Obviously. And?
> have the exact same perspective of the world as them, else they get accused of wrongthink
Who am I accusing of wrongthink? Who am I requiring to conform to my exact perspective? Am I not free to chose who to give my money to? Is it not my choice to base my decision on whatever I want? Is it somehow unethical to base that choice on public information?
> People are free to have different opinions than mine, and I will defend their right to do so.
You don't seem very eager to defend my right to the opinion that giving money to Mullvad is bad. You seem to consider that specific opinion to be "authoritarian". Why?
For the record, I don't use a VPN because they are (all) useless snake oil.
I really hate this direction both Anthropic and Open AI are following. They are in this silly competition whose model/harness can go unattended the longest, no matter what. And it is never explicit, you learn about it after you get bitten by it. Claude Code has auto mode which is supposed to take over permission prompts but no, they had to couple that with “I will assume this is what the user wants” and made it unusable.
It's what some more experienced users want and the companies are following the well-trod path of optimizing heavily for power users at the expense of complexity, only now it's gotten easier to add absurd amount of code to a project. Not necessarily to make it work right. Personally I have some tasks where sessions between one and five days are typical so I appreciate that it's possible.
Experienced in what dimension? I've been using these tools for about a year and coding for 20+ years, and frankly these long horizon tasks are the OPPOSITE of what I want. I want quick iteration cycles so that it doesn't spend a lot of time and tokens building things I need to throw out. I think the people that mostly want long horizon tasks are: AI labs, because they want you to spend tokens, and vibe coders, who are mostly using it for entertainment purposes.
I don't know about the overall breakdown but in my case longer runs are prototyping, bug hunting, reverse engineering, etc. For example Gnome Remote Desktop didn't work in my configuration due to a combination of hardware and codec bugs and settings. One drive to make it work, another to backport the current upstream packages to Debian stable, restack the patches, and push to my machines. Another sequence of long runs was writing a new client for a closed-source conferencing service I use to allow fixing some particularly irritating bugs. Exploit development has the same shape although that's not something I do personally. From what I've seen the amount of useful hands-off run time is directly related to how clearly it's possible to specify a concrete, verifiable standard by which to judge the outcome. For some tasks that might be days or weeks, for forward engineering on a software product that for me is usually under an hour.
I work on systems code that is tricky to write, but with a good test harness. Being able to leave the agent unattended to try several paths when I'm generating the first draft of some code is very helpful.
Of course beating the code into shape for submission requires more manual work. But the draft stage is valuable to find unexpected friction points.
She was probably repeating behaviors she learned in academia. These kinds of extremely toxic "don't just apologize for disagreeing with me but also give me the name of every person involved for collective punishment" is a classic move for academic tyrants throwing weight around. The understanding there is that they will then move to cut off every named person from power or access to academic resources. Google did the right thing by protecting their people.
I have watched it happen multiple times that someone from academia joins a research group at a large corporation and finds out to their chagrin that they can't just overtly bully colleagues as easily without tenure.
edit: And it looks like Mitchell immediately left an angry comment about being called a "linguist" despite the article never doing so. Starting to notice a pattern of confrontation, ego, and escalation among some of these people.
Glad they spent half the article on the a-pillar issue. As a recent recipient of a bit of back pain I'd be real happy if my next car didn't require me to try and peer around those things at every intersection.
They feel they're in a position to make important trade-off decisions on behalf of the user. "It's just slightly worse, I'll sneak this change in" is not something to be tolerated, whether it actually turns out to be much worse or not. Their adaptive thinking mess has caused a ton of work for me. I know a lot of people are saying Codex is actually better now. I don't agree but I'm switching to it because it's much more reliable.
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