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[zone @zone837]

@benjamincowen Congrats Ben. Good luck ahead 💯

[zone @zone837]

@elonmusk But we are amongst the stars ?

[Pranit @Pranit]

Anthropic just pulled the oldest trick in SaaS pricing.

I pay $200/mo for Claude Max. My limits have been noticeably worse this past week.

Now they announce 2x off-peak usage for two weeks. Sounds generous.

But here’s what actually happens: limits quietly drop, a temporary 2x makes the reduced limit feel normal, the promo ends, and you’re left at a baseline lower than where you started. You just didn’t notice the downgrade because the 2x absorbed the transition.

These AI plans are massively subsidized. The raw compute behind a heavy user costs multiples of the subscription price. Every move like this is the subsidy quietly correcting.

Very sneaky, Anthropic.

[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

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Vitalik funds one of the main AI doomer lobbying organizations trying to make this illegal.

[zone @zone837]

In plain text:

For $200/month, ChatGPT Pro with GPT-5.4 and the Codex Mac app gives founders an incredibly powerful set of AI tools that delivers way more value than it costs.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

You’re welcome

[Ryan Carson @ryancarson]

$200/mo ChatGPT Pro + gpt-5.4 xhigh + Codex Mac App is the most asymmetric upside I've ever seen in a tool chain.

A ridiculous cheat code for founders.

[zone @zone837]

@vonderleyen don’t forget to call it a day at 5pm too 😂 talk about work/life balance

[zone @zone837]

@openclaw On a Ski trip and just asked @openclaw to update itself!
Sick 🔥

[zone @zone837]

@levelsio Maybe slap them some “hefty” fines 🤭😂

[zone @zone837]

@kunalvg

[zone @zone837]

@CryptoHayes to sell or not to sell

- modern man who sold already

[zone @zone837]

@Cbb0fe Inspiring stuff 🔥

[zone @zone837]

@cobie congrats Cob 🥂

[zone @zone837]

@danielesesta facts!!!

[zone @zone837]

@benjamincowen Listening ser

[zone @zone837]

🐐

[Benjamin Cowen @benjamincowen]

Let's pretend to be shocked

[zone @zone837]

catch us in a few 🇰🇷 🔺

[Red Chip Finance🔺 @RedChipFinance]

We are leaving for the AVAX lodge event in Seoul for KBW. See you there in a few!

[Red Chip Finance🔺 @RedChipFinance]

Courtesy of @MessariCrypto and their beautiful analytics page

AVAX is up, and to the right. Metrics are up across the board.

A massive reason why we are deploying our own up-only DeFi app is because Avalanche has been resilient and continues to grow while other L1s/L2s etc. have seen their struggles.

Excited for the future on Avax!

[Rush @rushgames_io]

gRush $S Community!!

Are you this bullish on what's coming to Sonic and Rush??

[Rush @rushgames_io]

Ahhh!!! It’s another Monday 😁

A fresh week to burn the casino down 🎰🔥

🎯 Don’t forget to hit the BANG and CRASH game!

That’s where the real fun is as $S is brewing 🪂🪂

gRush, $S believers 💥😉