Comment by metadat
1 day ago
Yes, it appears they've been cracking down elsewhere as well: https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush/pull/1783
Are they really that strapped already? It took Netflix like 20 years before they began nickel and diming us.. with Anthro it's starting after less than 20 months in the spotlight.
I suspect it's really about control and the culture of Anthropic, rather than only finances. The message is: no more funtime, use Claude CLI, pay a lot for API tokens, or get your account banned.
All of these companies are losing money in the billions every quarter. Look at how frequent the raises are.
It isn't that simple, demand is growing and they're investing in that growth. With the exception of ElGoog the providers are all private entities, so we don't really know.
Edit: TMTD, hi! That makes sense, yeah.
Unit profitability is out of reach, the demand curve exceeds the profitability curve.
Edit: hello, good to chat again!