alt Hacker NewsAnthropic’s “Head of Growth” claims this is a “test”: https://x.com/TheAmolAvasare/status/2046724659039932830
This does not explain the changes to documentation.
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> So we're looking at different options to keep delivering a great experience for users.
his title should be changed to Head of Corporate Bullshitting
I don’t get the surprise or discontent. People hooking themselves up to a paid SaaS that only two vendors can offer (Anthropic and OpenAI), no competition or regulation to speak of… of course they’ll do whatever they want with their plans.
Hope you can still resume working on your projects without AI.
Hopefully the negative responses in that thread + the conversation here on HN might help them realize that totally removing Code access for Pro users isn't a good look.
And with no free trial period on top of that, nobody is going to want to pay $100+ just to check it out. I can't imagine the conversion rate of that test being positive.
> on ~2% of new prosumer signups.
I, and everyone else I have asked, see this new updated sales UI; sounds like more than 2%.
He goes way beyond saying it's a test, he's legitimising the change in the follow-up rationale
I am confused, how is this a test? So some users get Claude Code while others don’t, when they are both paying 20 dollars … ? Wat
Just checked. I continue to have Claude Code with my Pro plan
This is concerning though. If I lose my current usage allotment at this price point I will likely switch to codex
This test would be a good way to lose existing subscribers perhaps.
Fk around and now they will find out
How can you run the A/B test with mismatched documentation?
Somehow a ton of people are caught in the variant.
Random data point: Guest passes apparently still include Claude Code in their Pro trial. If they are running a test this is a really sloppy way to do it.
It is honestly truly fucking incredible how corps still find new, innovative ways to enshittify. Regular enshittification won't cut it, they have to exercise their artistic creativity. Who the fuck comes up with the idea that what services you get with your subscription are random? It's mind-boggling that some percentage of people visiting the website will be presented with an inferior version of the same subscription for the same price. I'm not even mad (despite my colorful wording), I don't use Claude, just impressed with the bold new territory being explored here.
Wait what, so they're testing giving new users misleading information about included services in each tier as an upsell tactic?
This reeks of the start of enshittification. Very doubtful it was a "test"
They later said: https://twitter.com/TheAmolAvasare/status/204672549859272297...
> When we do land on something, if it affects existing subscribers you'll get plenty of notice before anything changes. Will hear it from us, not a screenshot on X or Reddit.
If you don't want things like this spreading through screenshots of X and Reddit, don't run "tests" like this in the first place!
(Also "if it affects existing subscribers" is a cop-out, I need to know the pricing of Claude Code for NEW subscribers if I'm going to adopt it at a company with a growing team, or recommend it to other people, write tutorials etc.)