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Can you tell me more about how Claude Sonnet went bad for you? I've been using the free version pretty happily, and felt I was about to upgrade to paid any day now (well, at least before the new DeepSeek).


It's not their model being bad, it's claude.ai having pretty low quota for even paid users. It looks like Anthropic doesn't have enough GPUs. It's not only claude.ai, they recently pushed back increasing API demand from Cursor too.


Interesting insight/possibility. I did see some capacity glitches with my Cursor recently. Overall, I like Anthropic (and ChatGPT); hopefully they continue to succeed.


I've been a paid Claude user almost since they offered it. IMO it works perfectly well still - I think people are getting into trouble running extremely long conversations and blowing their usage limit (which is not very clearly explained). With Claude Desktop it's always good practice to summarize and restart the conversation often.


I should’ve maybe been more explicit, it’s Claudes service that I think sucks atm, not their model.

It feels like the free quota has been lowered much more than previously, and I have been using it since it was available to EU.

I can’t count how many times I’ve started a conversation and after a couple of messages I get ”unexpected constrain (yada yada)”. It is either that or I get a notification saying ”defaulting to Haiku because of high demand”.

I don’t even have long conversations because I am aware of how longer conversations can use up the free quota faster, my strategy is to start a new conversation with a little context as soon as I’ve completed the task.

I’ve had thoughts about paying for a subscription because how much I enjoy Sonnet 3.5, but it is too expensive for me and I don’t use it that much to pay 20$ monthly.

My suspicion is that Claude has gotten very popular since the beginning of last year and now Anthropic have hit their maximum capacity.

This is why I said DeepSeek came in like a savior, it performs close to Claude but for pennies, it’s amazing!


> Anthropic have hit their maximum capacity

Yeah. They won't reset my API limit until February even though I have 50 dollars in funds that they can take from me. It looks like I may need to look at using Amazon instead.


> They won't reset my API limit until February even though I have 50 dollars in funds that they can take from me

That’s scummy.

I’ve heard good stuff about poe.com, have you looked at them?


I use the paid verison, it I'm pretty happy with it. It's a lot better than OpenAi products


it can refuse to do the task based on morals, if it think the output will be used to harm, the issue is not straight refuse, it can subtle refuse by producing results "designed" to avoid accomplish what you want to do




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