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100%. Claude is, I'm sorry to say, basically nerfed.

I downgraded from Max to Pro this month and will cancel my subscription next month. I would suggest others who feel similarly do the same. The only way to signal to to these companies that this model enshittification cycle is unacceptable is to vote with your feet.

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vote with your feet.

All vendors are under the same sort of pressure. What you've experienced is likely to be duplicated elsewhere.

That's already true.. Every time a new "benchmark-leading" model is released from anyone, they give it maximum resources for a week or two, then drop the performance. The point is no-one can reliably use these already unreliable and inconsistent tools when the vendors are making it worse by fiddling in the backend. Claude went from useful to near useless for me in a week, with no otherwise visible change. The produce being sold is literally changing under the hood on a whim. This is a deceptive trade practice, but on a more practical level, it's just not possible to get consistent results with these products when their output quality is so subject to change.

Bottom line: There is nothing deterministic about AI itself or the vendors promoting it. Everything is subject to the vendor's whim.

Do you feel lucky?

theyre stilll powerful, so the reality is: grab a amd395 or mac studio and start having realiable workflows.

the nondeterminism is still in the model but the world of FOMO-driven uncertainty fades away.

you still get to fill in as ace coder whenver theres gaps in its capabilities and upgrade when you want.

live on your cycle, not VCs

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