[puglr]

Lots and lots of automation, along with long-running multi-instance headless tasks. My usage, which I was on the verge of increasing via a second Max plan, would cost 3 figures per day, rather than per month. I already know this because my initial tooling was prototyped against direct API usage, and that was the cost of my usage patterns.

That is not sustainable for me. I understand that Anthropic can't subsidize all of us forever, but this will force me away from claude which is unfortunate. A number of the people I work with are similarly affected.

[circuitwork]

Same. Lots of little tasks that add up over time. The economics might not be great for Anthropic, but the economics of this change definitely don’t work for me; I could build a home lab and recoup its cost in about three months for the same pricing. “Headless is expensive” is a weird tone to set given so many recent cc releases pushing for greater autonomy (agents view, auto mode).

I’ve been happily single-homed on Anthropic for the last year, but I’ll be spending the next month rewriting projects off it to take advantage of better value elsewhere. I suspect that’s a one way door.

[DonsDiscountGas]

I'm curious what you're doing so often and repeatedly that can't be done with more normal software. Or maybe write a good school, I've noticed Haiku+good instructions often matches Opus