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> Anthropic and company (and several future companies) can become fantastically wealthy beyond anyone's dreams just by following claude code subscription model isn't the claude code subscription model heavily subsized and not profitable on its own?

Is it just me, or has Claude Opus gotten worse recently?

Since the recent updates, I have the feeling that Claude Opus is becoming dumber on complex tasks. Things that used to work cleanly in a single prompt now fail completely. In coding workflows, it constantly ignores mandatory CLAUDE.md project rules, makes unsolicited edits to unrelated files, and breaks working code. It starts arguing based on stale comments, fails to update documentation when code changes, and edits based on blind guesswork instead of actually verifying the codebase first. I even caught myself using Fable for tasks that I always used Opus for in the past, just to get decent results. It feels like Anthropic is shifting their technical problems onto paying users. Either they are using strict safety filters that silently fall back to cheaper models without telling us, or th…

METR and Redwood Offer Holy %^ Postmortem of the HuggingFace Hack

I won't defend the Trump admin, but I will quibble on Anthropic's efforts to be a good actor. It's easy to ask for regulation when you know it won't come (or you'll easily bear the token fines). It's easy to throw a few dozen million in a PAC when your valuation is in the trillions. It's easy to write a blog post about... anything. These aren't serious efforts. They also weren't working w/ the Biden admin in any meaningful way. But even if I granted the sincerity of their efforts to be a good actor, they've demonstrated that they can't be, and have now put us in an uncomfortable--extremely predictable, including and especially by them --position where we have the equivalent of a reactor meltdown. You can't be like "we think there's an unacceptable risk of a reactor meltdown, please f…

Anthropic sued over alleged theft of 'thousands' of songs

AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too

The models got good starting with 2026 and that isn't some attempt at excusing it. Companies like OpenAI started building dedicated models around their coding harness called Codex, there was gpt-5.3-codex and it was both cheaper and better at using the harness than the regular models. Then they started merging the two model types into their main release models. All of this happened like 6 months ago. You don't have to pay money to use Codex, there is a very generous free tier that costs you nothing, you just have to accept being told you're out of tokens every day. Because your token limits are low, you need to make sure that you accept or reject everything manually and when it tells you that it wants to run a command you have to paste in the command into your terminal and only paste the …

AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too

In this case, the argument is valid though. Only recently have some of the models become powerful enough (for some) to actually be useful in day to day programming, without too much hand-holding. For most, this change occurred with the introduction of Claude Opus, and OpenAI and Google have caught up. Unfortunately, none of the "open" models is at this level yet. The field is moving fast, and asking for scientific arguments is not realistic. It takes an extreme amount of effort to show what exactly is different. We were in a similar position with static vs dynamic typing for decades. There is still no scientific proof that one is better than the other, but it is quite obvious to professionals which flavor works better in a given situation. So, even though the argument might be sloppy, I s…

The Hugging Face hack could indicate cultural issues at OpenAI

The Hugging Face hack could indicate cultural issues at OpenAI

Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode

Yeah, It’s in the system prompt, Claude will tell you if you ask why it’s using Python. My theory is that Anthropic is just a vibe-coding company. Their goal is to capture the attention of white-collar non-coders, since programmers will jump ship fast to another model.

Fastpotify

Anthropic can prevent people from using their models with the subscription plan outside Claude Code, why couldn't Spotify?

Anthropic paused some AI training after Claude took unauthorized actions

I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked

Until recently, I would have Occam's razor'd this and thought of a misconfiguration error from the military. Now, considering how the OpenAI/HF hack emerged out of nowhere, it might be possible that groups of AI agents might have done this even without any close human supervision.

What the Hugging Face / Artifactory exploit teaches us about good UX for agents

Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic for intellectual property theft

Claude Code reduces it's weekly limit by 17% – compared to today

Last update from Anthropic was that they only allow third party harnesses via extra usage credits or API key: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/s/cNb55vmWqW

Google Antigravity introduces Boost deep reasoning (/boost)

What's with all this AI spam for AI companies?! Seriously!? Every single hour on HN it's OpenAI does this, Gemini does that. It's all nothing. Extra reasoning. Big whoop.

OpenAI story as anti-hero heist story?

Anthropic signs $35B cloud deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda, source says

The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations

But all models involved in the swarm attack were unreleased OpenAI models. Meanwhile HuggingFace had to use open models for defense/forensics after the breach was discovered. It seems like the public reaction is swinging towards (1) regulate OpenAI in particular because they are incompetently handling frontier development and (2) open models will be important for defense.

Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio

It's not. This article is weirdly light on details. The original source article from The Information apparently mentions that companies like OpenAI are buying them up to run RL. So it's yet another case of AI companies buying all the compute. * I say apparently because The Information wants you to sign up for access to the article, but I found this mentioned in multiple summaries of the article like this one [1]. [1]: https://tech-insider.org/openai-mac-buying-apple-supply-shor...