Five panicked moves in three weeks. One Anthropic exec quote that explained all of them. And the financial engineering reckoning the whole industry has been deferring.
fascinating. in the month of March/April I went from Claude Pro to Max5 to Max20 to Max5. They make it remarkably easy to burn tokens. I argue unnecessarily. April revealed a whole lot of problem solving inefficiencies - unnecessary tool and skill spin-ups, over complicated solutions to problems that had already been defined and previously mapped. The model’s capabilities seemingly stepped back. Hung up. And clearly wasted tokens. Every workflow I build now is lensed through maximizing token spend efficiency. So yes - the economics of current token spend are clearly challenging but instead of punishing the user why not work on delivering more efficient token use. We need to get past this being a sausage factory.
fascinating. in the month of March/April I went from Claude Pro to Max5 to Max20 to Max5. They make it remarkably easy to burn tokens. I argue unnecessarily. April revealed a whole lot of problem solving inefficiencies - unnecessary tool and skill spin-ups, over complicated solutions to problems that had already been defined and previously mapped. The model’s capabilities seemingly stepped back. Hung up. And clearly wasted tokens. Every workflow I build now is lensed through maximizing token spend efficiency. So yes - the economics of current token spend are clearly challenging but instead of punishing the user why not work on delivering more efficient token use. We need to get past this being a sausage factory.