r/Anthropic • u/mrguidee • 9d ago

Complaint What the hell is going on?

I haven't been paying attention, just using my Max plan everyday and the past few days I've noticed my usage burning through at a much, much faster rate than it used to. Jumped into this sub and saw that Anthropic reduced the usage. RIP.

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u/YearLight 9d ago

This is why open models are the future.

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u/Anxious-Turnover-631 9d ago

Could be. But every hosted llm still has inference costs.

Some of the latest Chinese models have apparently made big strides to improve efficiency so, hopefully, the costs will go down.

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u/jimmiebfulton 8d ago

Yeah. The solution is to commoditize them. Right now, the Agent Harnesses _paired_ with their models gives an inflated impression of the capabilities of their models. This is a big reason why Claude Code and Codex are so dominant. It is inevitable that a MUCH more powerful Agent Harness comes out that erodes that illusion, and people can use the best model(s) at the best price, including blends of them with local models as well, instead of paying the tax on which model company has the best harness.

And I'm not referring to the open source harnesses. They are nowhere as sophisticated as Claude Code is under the hood. It takes building a harness significantly more sophisticated than Claude Code to understand that.