Software Supply Chain, Marvel, and Funko Pops! With Great Power comes Great Responsibility.
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BasketteCase retweeted
Jun 5
Keep in mind that if you're defending Platner at this point you're signing up for 5 more months of defending an obvious pathological liar.
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BasketteCase retweeted
May 23
Spring AI 1.0.8, 1.1.7, and 2.0.0-M7 are out now! 🚀
2.0.0-M7 highlights:
🔧 ToolCallAdvisor is now the default
✨ New ToolSpec fluent API
along with important improvements, stability enhancements, and bug fixes on 1.1.7 and 1.0.8: spring.io/blog/2026/05/23/sp…
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BasketteCase retweeted
May 21
Why is this the first time I’ve heard this joke?? 😂
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BasketteCase retweeted
May 21
New inflection point in the accelerating growth of open-source models usage is coming
May 21
🦔Microsoft canceled its internal Claude Code licenses this week after token-based billing made the cost untenable, even for a company with effectively infinite cloud resources. Uber's CTO sent an internal memo warning the company burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in just four months. American AI software prices have jumped 20% to 37%, and GitHub (owned by Microsoft) is dropping flat-rate plans for usage-based billing across its products.
My Take
The AI subsidy era is ending in real time. The same company that put $13 billion into OpenAI and built the Azure infrastructure powering most of Anthropic's compute just looked at the bill from a competitor's coding tool and decided it was not worth paying. That is not a productivity failure on Anthropic's end. Token-based pricing is forcing every enterprise customer to confront the actual cost of running these models at scale, and the number turns out to be far higher than the flat-rate experiments suggested.
This ties directly to my Gemini Flash post yesterday. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google all raised effective prices in the last six months. Enterprises that built workflows assuming AI costs would keep falling are now watching annual budgets evaporate in months. Two outcomes look likely from here. Either enterprises scale back AI usage to fit budgets, which slows the revenue ramp the labs need to justify their valuations ahead of IPOs, or the labs cut prices and absorb the losses, which makes the unit economics worse at exactly the wrong moment. Both paths land in the same place, the numbers stop working, and somebody has to take the writedown.
Hedgie🤗
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BasketteCase retweeted
Apr 6
We've signed an agreement with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of next-generation TPU capacity, coming online starting in 2027, to train and serve frontier Claude models.
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Apr 7
Claude Code is desperate for me to hang it up for the night. This is new. Its said “call it a night” multiple times during my latest convo.
“Want me to create an issue for that approach and call it a night?”
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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
Apr 2
Thank you to everyone who spent time sending us feedback and reports. We've investigated and we're sorry this has been a bad experience.
Here's what we found:
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BasketteCase retweeted
24 Jan 2023
The hottest new programming language is English
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BasketteCase retweeted
Feb 28
BREAKING: The vast majority of software was slop long before vibe coding was a thing
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Introducing Claude Code Security, now in limited research preview.
It scans codebases for vulnerabilities and suggests targeted software patches for human review, allowing teams to find and fix issues that traditional tools often miss.
Learn more: anthropic.com/news/claude-co…
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Jan 28
API Error: 500 {"type":"error","error":{"type":"api_error","message":"Internal server error"},"request_id":
#vibecoding #ai #Clawdbot #claudecode
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BasketteCase retweeted
Jan 25
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BasketteCase retweeted
Jan 19
This has been said a thousand times before, but allow me to add my own voice: the era of humans writing code is over. Disturbing for those of us who identify as SWEs, but no less true. That's not to say SWEs don't have work to do, but writing syntax directly is not it.
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I’ve been working on my Nexus MCP Gateway project in my spare time. I have been rolling our new features as I encounter use cases in the wild and build to solve them.
linkedin.com/posts/dbbaskett… #AI #MCP #CodeAssistants #AgenticAI
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23 Dec 2025
This weeks update on my side-project, Nexus MCP Gateway
linkedin.com/posts/dbbaskett…
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