Kostas

Politics, korfball, climbing and science. Board gamer. Electronics. He/him 🏳️‍🌈

[Kostas @Netgull]

@tadhg_2002 Hi. Also that 33% con/rfm never ceases to amaze me.

[Kostas @Netgull]

@soler_alfredo Happy birthday! Welcome to the club! And you don't look a day over 32 :⁠-⁠)

[Ben Eisenhart @BEisenhart]

Being in your early 40s is weird, man. People around your age are in every stage of life. You have people who are grandparents. You have people who have newborns. You have people dating 25-year-olds. You have people celebrating their 20th wedding anniversary. Some of them look 60, and some of them look 30. All the bases are covered when you are in your early 40s.

[Pranit @Pranit]

Anthropic is burning customer goodwill over something they already know how to fix

They price every API call to the cent but won't tell subscription users what their plan actually buys

People can accept tighter limits

What they can't accept is being told they all started using Claude wrong on the same day

People are reporting 40% of their Pro limit gone in 2 prompts. Full weekly allowances drained in 19 minutes. Single-word messages eating 1-4% of sessions

That is not a context window problem. It's a transparency problem

Anthropic is precise where it benefits them and vague where it protects them

The API pricing page is exact: Opus 4.6 runs $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output. Every call metered

The subscription page says "more usage" and "5x or 20x more usage than Pro"

More than what?

Anthropic has never published how many tokens each plan gets

You can see what percentage of your limit you've used, but you can't see what the limit actually is. And you have no way to verify that what you're getting today is the same as last month

When Codex users started hitting rate limits faster than expected, OpenAI reset everyone's limits while they investigated. They said they didn't fully understand why and chose the cautious path

Anthropic's response was to tell paying users to downgrade
- Switch from Opus to Sonnet
- Turn off extended thinking
- Cap your context at 200k instead of the 1M they advertise
- Start new sessions instead of resuming old ones

In short, 'this is a skill issue'

Every one of those is a feature people are paying to access

Paying users should not have to reverse-engineer what their plan buys

If Anthropic wants to rebuild trust, the fix is straightforward
- Publish actual token budgets per tier, the same way they already do for the API
- Show what each message costs against the budget
- Let people verify for themselves whether the deal changed

They already do this on the API side. The choice not to do it for subscriptions tells you everything

[sniper (heron) @iamaheron_]

How did we all decide that “pull request” was perfectly fine terminology? It’s a merge request and I’m tired of pretending otherwise

[Kostas @Netgull]

@thomasforth That's insane! RAM to the people!

[Kostas @Netgull]

@FT Why is a steeper slope more progressive? What is the correct "progressive" slope? 30 degrees? 45? 60? At which point does it become something else?

[Kostas @Netgull]

Happy #LGBTQSTEMDay!

Be proud, geeky, inquisitive and fabulous!

[Kostas @Netgull]

@GjMcGowan Because all the resolution foundation ones do 😆

[Kostas @Netgull]

Great news for once! Now do it!

[YIMBY Alliance @yimbyalliance]

TODAY the government announced a package for infrastructure, homes and business space for the Oxford-Cambridge Growth Corridor.

The Growth Corridor could add up to £78 bn to the economy by 2035 📈

🧵Here are the big takeaways (+ the REOPENING of a railway line after 60 years)

[Kostas @Netgull]

@SamLW24 Story of my life

[Office for National Statistics (ONS) @ONS]

In London, the average home was not affordable for any household income decile.

In three other regions (South East, East of England & South West), the average home was only affordable to the top decile.

Read more ➡️ https://t.co/T4qhXhiwX5

[Have I Got News For You @haveigotnews]

Angela Rayner’s departure comes as a blow to many voters, especially among the under-35s, who are all asking the question ‘What the hell is Stamp Duty?’

[Alex Feis-Bryce 🏳️‍🌈 @Alex_FeisBryce]

I’m at a fancy event and made a speech about anti-LGBTQ+ bullying.

An older guy approached me to donate £100. He told me that he was proud of his trans granddaughter.

“I don’t know anyone in my day who went through what she goes through every day. She’s my hero”

We hugged 🫂

[Kostas @Netgull]

What infuriates me, is, most of her high profile critics would absolutely have followed the same tax 'efficiency' advice. How do you fight a battle on principles when your opponents have absolutely none and will crucify you on them on the smallest misstep?

[Kostas @Netgull]

Sad to see Rayner go. A charismatic politician with personality and convictions, not that common anymore. And resigning over this, while the right thing to do, is like using medieval battle tactics in a battlefield with machine guns.

[Kostas @Netgull]

Back to the seaside, no family this time. Can't wait to do nothing at all but swim and read for a few days!
Any good book recommendations?

[Kostas @Netgull]

Another awesome day climbing up a multipitch at Idwal slabs! And my first abseiling.

[Kostas @Netgull]

Lovely start to a weekend in North Wales with a multipitch above a lake. The views were stunning!

[Kostas @Netgull]

@GjMcGowan Congratulations!