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This was a real issue, and Anthropic recently awknowledged it: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/

This was a real issue, and Anthropic recently awknowledged it: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem Of course, it sucks when companies screw up ... but at the same time, they "paid everyone back" by removing limits for awhile, and (more importantly to me) they were transparent about the whole thing. I have a hard time seeing any other major AI provider being this transparent, so while I'm annoyed at Claude ... I respect how they handled it.

wood_spirit 6mo ago
Yes that was one issue. It’s not the general degradation I have been talking about though, which is ongoing. I recall reading similar tales of woe with other providers here on HN. I think the gradual dialling back of capability as capacity becomes strained as users pile on is part of the MO of all the big AI companies.
- felixgallo 6mo ago
  the 'general degradation' is a myth. Check out https://isitnerfed.org/ https://isitnerfed.org/.
  - mceachen 6mo ago
    Random crowd anecdata is still anecdata.
    - felixgallo 6mo ago
      you're not wrong, but anecdata is not data. Here's some more data: https://marginlab.ai/trackers/claude-code-historical-performance/ https://marginlab.ai/trackers/claude-code-historical-perform...
swdunlop 6mo ago
Amusingly, when a coworker was looking for this postmortem, they found a different postmortem of three Claude issues that caused decay. This one was in the platform, not in Claude Code: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/a-postmortem-of-three-recent-issues https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/a-postmortem-of-three-... I think there's a certain amount of running with scissors going on here. I appreciate the transparency, but the time to remediation here seems pretty long compared to the rate of new features.
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wood_spirit 6mo ago

Yes that was one issue. It’s not the general degradation I have been talking about though, which is ongoing. I recall reading similar tales of woe with other providers here on HN. I think the gradual dialling back of capability as capacity becomes strained as users pile on is part of the MO of all the big AI companies.

felixgallo 6mo ago
the 'general degradation' is a myth. Check out https://isitnerfed.org/ https://isitnerfed.org/.
- mceachen 6mo ago
  Random crowd anecdata is still anecdata.
  - felixgallo 6mo ago
    you're not wrong, but anecdata is not data. Here's some more data: https://marginlab.ai/trackers/claude-code-historical-performance/ https://marginlab.ai/trackers/claude-code-historical-perform...

swdunlop 6mo ago

Amusingly, when a coworker was looking for this postmortem, they found a different postmortem of three Claude issues that caused decay. This one was in the platform, not in Claude Code: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/a-postmortem-of-three-recent-issues https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/a-postmortem-of-three-... I think there's a certain amount of running with scissors going on here. I appreciate the transparency, but the time to remediation here seems pretty long compared to the rate of new features.

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