alt Hacker NewsNow they're hurting their popularity with those who actually don't mind using Claude Code. I've been quietly swallowing a lot of performance degradation over the past few weeks as I get the resource crunch, but I'm definitely not going back to copy-pasting between browser and editor. And I have no intention of upgrading to Max or doing per token usage.
It seems they were losing money on pro subscriptions with code so if people stop using them it's actually ok for them.
They have now moved to be enterprise providers and don't need the cheap pro users as loss leaders anymore.