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all2yesterday at 8:44 PM1 replyview on HN

Interestingly, I canceled my Claude subscription. I've paid through the first week of December, so it dries up on the 7th of December. As soon as I had canceled, Claude Code started performing substantially better. I gave it a design spec (a very loose design spec) and it one-shotted it. I'll grant that it was a collection of docker containers and a web API, but still. I've not seen that level of performance from Claude before, and I'm thinking I'll have to move to 'pay as you go' (pay --> cancel immediately) just to take advantage of this increased performance.


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blinding-streakyesterday at 9:26 PM

That's really interesting. After cancelling, it goes into retention mode, akin to when one cancels other online services? For example, I cancelled Peacock the other day and it offered a deal of $1.99/mo for 6 months if I stayed.

Very intriguing, curious if others have seen this.

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