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Maybe Anthropic is just testing the waters to see what they can get away with. Left unchallenged (court, charge back, whatever) why change course?
by quikoa 6mo ago
Maybe Anthropic is just testing the waters to see what they can get away with. Left unchallenged (court, charge back, whatever) why change course?
- serf 6mo agotheres no water-testing here, they've been operating this way for years -- that's why I am a former customer.
- impulser_ 6mo agoI think it's they don't want to set a precedent on refunding for bugs because one bug could cost them millions.
- GTP 6mo agoBut, no need to set a precedent: I'm quite confident that a US court would refund a person or company that overpaid due to a bug in Antropic's billing.
- WesolyKubeczek 6mo agoThis is not just one bug, though; it’s a bug that takes money that ain’t theirs to take.
- rurp 6mo agoIs that even legal? What happens if my landlord accidentally charges me 10x rent this month and refuse to correct it even after I ask? That's just straight up stealing. I feel like at a minimum I'm getting my money back one way or another, and they are likely to face consequences for theft.
- GTP 6mo agoWell, with the Chinese AI divisions becoming a serious competitor more and more, they should start caring about their reputation. Otherwise people will go to the cheaper competitor.
- 2ndorderthought 6mo agoYea I am more or less done with these big providers. I'm running local primarily now. These constant screw ups, not caring about customers, political issues, it's just not worth it for me. I get some people are hooked on vibe coding but the latest wave of small models I'm good for my needs.
- sersi 6mo agoWhat do you use now? How much ram do you have? I am increasingly thinking of doing that
- 2ndorderthought 6mo agoWell about 4 weeks ago I was mostly running small models. Some of my favorites were deepseek r1 8b and qwen 3.5 9b. Those are more or less good for boiler plate super fast responses(what I cared about most). Now I am still trying out all the models that dropped this month. I am running qwen 3.6 35 a3b on a 16gb vram rtx 4060 ti. I wish I sprung for a 24gb vram card but I never thought the price difference would matter. It seems like it does and I bet in the future there will be more models at this size because this is crazy. It's not as good as opus if you are doing completely hands off programming but it's completely fine for me. I mostly use it for auto complete or templating a class. Other people are using it for agentic workflows with success. Check out /r/localllama for more experiences. My set up is not the best but it is working for me and is saving me money.
- ac29 6mo ago> My set up is not the best but it is working for me and is saving me money. I've got a local setup too but unless you consider hardware zero cost, there is really no way to save money. The class of model you can run on <$5k of hardware is dirt cheap to run in the cloud (generating tokens 24/7 non-stop is a few dollars a day at most, possibly even less than the cost of electricity to do it at home).
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- juntoalaluna 6mo agobecause they want people to trust them and continue to use their services. being a shitty business to deal with will eventually bite them, its not like they are the only choice.
- lavezzi 6mo ago> Left unchallenged (court, charge back, whatever) why change course? They are trying to go public and will get absolutely bitchslapped by SOX.
- njovin 6mo agoBy whom? Which regulatory body is not completely captured in this administration?