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Anthropic made a generational mistake.
Framing AI as a technology that’s going to take everyone’s jobs, create cyber weapons, enable autonomous warfare, etc. instead of curing disease and helping humans do more is one of the most unforced errors I’ve ever seen.
How difficult would it have been to frame AI as technology so powerful it’s going to discover cures for disease, allow humans to be more productive, expand what small teams can build, accelerate GDP, and give people leverage they’ve never had before?
Such an unforced error.
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Even if it gets reversed by Monday, the message is sent: the people who actually built Mythos and Fable are locked out of their own work for being green card holders instead of citizens. Straight-up recipe for brain drain.
Jun 13
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.
Access to all other Claude models is not affected.
We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.
Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…
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Now that it’s banned. STOP nerfing Opus 4.8
Jun 13
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.
Access to all other Claude models is not affected.
We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.
Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…
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There’s a problem with the @ChatGPTapp. Every time I mention an image like editing one inside a PDF it launches the image generator animation even when I’m not generating any images.
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Probably out of usage limits 😂
Apr 28
they have mythos at home but can't even update their docs
ahhhh
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@AnthropicAI At this point, the only real solution is to open-source Claude Code. The source has already leaked, so there’s nothing meaningful left to hide. Keeping it closed now only shields the team from scrutiny while users keep dealing with the same failures over and over. If Claude Code is going to keep breaking in public, its development needs public accountability too
Apr 26
THIS GUY LOST $200 IN ONE DAY BECAUSE THE STRING "HERMES.md" WAS IN HIS GIT COMMITS
HERMES.md is a real convention used in AI agent projects. it's a system prompt specification file. not some obscure edge case
he's on claude max 20x at $200 a month. yesterday claude code hit him with "you're out of extra usage" out of nowhere
his dashboard showed 13% weekly usage. 0% current session. 86% of his plan was sitting there untouched
but $200.98 in extra usage already burned through what should have been covered by his subscription
he tried logout & login, different models, fresh installs and nothing worked
anthropic support sent the ai bot (four rounds of the same scripted response). eventually they just gave up on him
so he started binary searching repos and commits manually on his own time until he found the trigger
the string "HERMES.md" in a recent git commit message
uppercase, with the .md extension, anywhere in your commit history
that's it
claude code includes recent commits in its system prompt and something server side flags HERMES.md and quietly routes you off your max plan onto API rate billing
> AGENTS.md? fine
> README.md? fine
> HERMES without .md? fine
> lowercase hermes.md? fine
> uppercase HERMES.md? you're getting charged API rates
he reported it. anthropic support acknowledged the bug three times, called it an "authentication routing issue", thanked him for finding it
then refused to refund the $200
so the man pays $200 a month for max, lost another $200 to a billing bug they confirmed, did anthropic's QA work for free on his weekend, and got a "thank you for your patience" in return
check your commit history before claude code quietly drains your account too
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What in the actual fuck?
Apr 25
Would-be UFO whistleblower died of accidental drug overdose after agreeing to testify to Congress trib.al/ph0Hz9L
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i think it’s time for the claude code team to stop using internal builds and dogfood your public builds for a month to clean up the mess you made and pushed to the public.
Apr 24
The latest claude code burns $$ roughly 5x faster than version 2.1.71 with opus 4.6- I tested it today and tracked my usage
I'm downgrading for now!
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Let me get this straight: the people building Claude Code weren't even using the same version they charge us $200/month for. That's why it took a month of paying customers screaming into the void before anyone noticed it was broken. Cool beta test, thanks for letting us fund it.
Apr 23
Over the past month, some of you reported Claude Code's quality had slipped. We investigated, and published a post-mortem on the three issues we found.
All are fixed in v2.1.116 and we’ve reset usage limits for all subscribers.
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Let me get this straight: the people building Claude Code weren't even using the same version they charge us $200/month for. That's why it took a month of paying customers screaming into the void before anyone noticed it was broken. Cool beta test, thanks for letting us fund it.
Apr 23
Over the past month, some of you reported Claude Code's quality had slipped. We investigated, and published a post-mortem on the three issues we found.
All are fixed in v2.1.116 and we’ve reset usage limits for all subscribers.
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FINALLY Anthropic responded to the shitty Opus 4.7 and 4.6 performance everyone's been screaming about for a month.
Turns out they'd quietly made Claude Code worse in three different ways:
1- they lowered the default reasoning effort to cut latency.
2- shipped a caching "optimization" that gave Claude amnesia every turn, and
3- bolted on a "keep responses under 100 words" system prompt that apparently nobody bothered to evaluate for coding quality.
It took weeks to catch because their internal staff weren't even using the same build as paying customers and they pinky-promise to actually test things before shipping next time.
Apr 23
Over the past month, some of you reported Claude Code's quality had slipped. We investigated, and published a post-mortem on the three issues we found.
All are fixed in v2.1.116 and we’ve reset usage limits for all subscribers.
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90% of current KYC systems are going to be useless in a couple of months.
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