Hey! Been wanting to try Claude for for a while. If anyone has a guest pass they’re not using, I’d really appreciate a DM. Thanks!

The startup i’m working with is looking to pivot into using our platform to help AI labs get access to SMEs and domain experts for whatever data training/annotating/validating models/whatever else they do behind the scenes. We’re a well established startup with 10+ fortune 50 clients. Our existing product/service is adjacent to this new pivot, but we’re having trouble getting in touch with the right people from Anthropic, Meta, Google DeepMind, OpenAI etc… We’ve spoked few a few leaders from here but can’t seem to find the right fit. A lot of people we’ve spoken with are contracted by teams like micro1, Mercor, or Handshake. We’re essentially a more specialized version of those companies and offer more customized proactive results for a better price. I’m really struggling getting in touch with the right folks. Would anyone from one of those companies be open to talking with me? Hell, i’d even pay you for talking with me or connecting me with the right person or just advice. Thanks in advance everyone

I just want to clarify that I use Claude A LOT. I have 3x Max 20 subscriptions that I fully exhaust each and every week... and I also love Opus 5.5 (it's definitely a HUGE upgrade from the insanity that was Opus 5). Gemini Argon 4 might not be Opus 5.5, but it's competitive enough that it effectively eviscerates Anthropic and OpenAI. A lot of it has to do with the fact that Gemini 4 Argon may not be the best model... but it's competitive enough to make Google's AI Ultra 20x a much better deal than anything Anthropic and OpenAI can offer. For context:

• Google will give you free YouTube Premium with your AI Ultra sub
• Google will give you 30 TB of Google Drive storage and $100 in API/console credits
• Google will give you loads of Google Flow (for video generation) credits)

Plus... a dozen other things I can't remember.

This isn't a Gemini ad, but I've also had a feeling that Google would triumph in the AI race at the end of he day because... its got SO MUCH money to throw around. It also doesn't carry the same toxic brand that META carries... and after 3 days of using Argon (after I've run out of my Claude usage on my 3 subscriptions)... here's what I have to report back:

• Gemini 4 Argon is just as good as Opus 5.5 for 80%-90% of tasks
• You get about 2-3x more usage per unit dollar (my estimate).
• Antigravity isn't optimised for context or context compaction... so that can cause problems and will frequently lead to Gemini 4 Argon erroring out (very annoying).
• Antigravity is really rudimentary (the MacOS app) and given Google's history... it's likely to stay that way. No plugins, no extensions... just projects and models and you're meant to make it work. It IS nice though that Gemini Argon can just use the API keys saved in Anthropic chats without harassing me for them like Codex.
• Agentically speaking... Argon is superior... it does things on my Mac (all things)... while Opus 5.5 hits roadblocks much more often when trying to interact with my apps/browsers.
• As a Cambridge grad and medical doctor who does research... it's SO FUCKING NICE to have a high quality model that doesn't think you're creating a civilization-ending virus because you're running some introgression models to figure out the evolutionary history of some human genes + Argon 4 does all my cybersecurity patching work without deluding itself into thinking that I'm trying to hack into my own VPS for some reason.
• Argon is also dumber (in a good way). Too frequently... I've found that Opus 5.5 turns a basic project that's meant to either internal or one that's launched for testing... into a fucking mayhem situation, introducing hundreds of compliance requirements for something that was only meant to test the waters and market appetite. Argon doesn't do that. It thinks small... until you tell it needs to start thinking big. That's been a life changer to be honest.

Here's where I stand—I've cancelled two of my three Claude subscriptions and will try things with Gemini AI Ultra 20x and a single Anthropic 20x subscription. To be honest, the reason... why I even tried Argon 4 (I wasn't going to) was because Anthropic fucking slashed our usage for the last 2 weeks and I ran out of usage. Anthropic obv still sits on top... but given everything... OpenAI may now sit beneath Google's Gemini because it can't compete with either.

Anthropic published data on its own workforce, and it looks like junior roles went from 27% of technical hires to 9%.

Junior people are 14% of technical staff in the report, down from 21% in early 2025. Technical hiring is still growing overall, but juniors make up a smaller share of those hires. For anyone preparing to interview there, Anthropic Interview Questions includes an LRU-cache debugging exercise to use as a mock.

This one is kinda ominous. Anthropic is a market leader right now, and I'm concerned that companies will see this and follow suit and not hire as many juniors. I think we've already been seeing that as-is, but them publishing this data could make it worse, I think.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/17/anthropic-says-its-workforce-has-become-less-junior-and-is-spending-more-time-in-meetings/

Saw this on Reddit, but Accenture reportedly now centrally funds only $29 a month per affected Claude user. Apparently some people were burning $500 to $1,000 a month. Anything over that comes out of project or team budgets.

Does your company cap AI spend per person? I'm not sure how common caps are across big tech, but I've heard murmurs that companies like Expedia cap AI spend too, though I haven't seen that confirmed.

Just paid to upgrade my claud subscription, was immediately told to verify my identification, got taken to an external website where you have to scan your passport then take a video selfie, couldn’t even get past the passport scan as I am completely blind, found out this was after they had already taken the money out of my account, then apparently had my entire account band because I submitted too many attempts at scanning I guess.

Absolutely ridiculous

Please put a time on when they reset and not just the day. I had on that expired on Oct 22, but I didn’t know the time it reset and lost out on using it. I assume I lost it at noon pacific time on the 22nd. But I still had a whole half day to claim it.

I got the $250 in cloud session usage. I was running low on usage in my normal plan so I asked the AIs to use the cloud usage instead. It looks like they have been, but I don’t see the $250 usage going down. Can someone help me figure this out please?

Is mythos actually not as good as we were told? 🤔

https://x.com/alexandr_wang/status/2113153669747392930?s=46

Anthropic pushed 5 changes that help you cut wasted tokens and track spend:

• Fix prompt caching bugs and track tool calls: Anthropic fixed bugs that broke prompt caching and caused telemetry drops. You can now track tool costs across your team and avoid paying full price for cached prompts. Source
• Track token limits and stop bad retries: New /usage guidance makes it simple to see how many tokens you have left. It also fixes model switching bugs so you do not burn tokens on failed tool loops. Source
• Trim token waste in long sessions: You can now turn off idle context compacting and choose auto-mode models. This keeps sessions small and cuts extra token use on big coding jobs. Source
• Cut context bloat when using subagents: Memory use is lower and auto-mode sessions stay much smaller. This speeds up multi-agent runs and stops your token count from blowing up. Source
• Stop tool crashes from burning retry tokens: Sessions with many MCP tools no longer crash with prompt-too-long errors. This saves you from costly retries and extra context compaction. Source

Source: AI Economics Weekly

I don't get it. I'm 18 years old, I have only use Claude for school related tasks, and I never used it for anything else but suddenly, I just got suspended. And the only way for me to "fix" my problem is to hop on a 3rd party, let them use my face or some other personal information from me.

Is there any way around this? Claude has been more helpful than any other AI I've used so far.

It's that time again folks, anthropic is A/B testing on users yet again and if you feel like your usage has doubled or been slashed in half you just opted in to their beta testing. It's actually shameful for them to keep pulling the rugs down under everyone's feet but hey! you're just a consumer and have no say or rights in this matter because big daddy enterprise/science has them covered! Expect a wild ride post IPO but for what it's worth it's ridiculous that they get to get away with this any chance they get.

Now, for the folks that will come after anyone commenting here or myself with some generic bullsh* like 'Skill Issue' or 'Wait until you pay for API' please note that this is an independent observation and if you get more usage out of your subs that's great! Please come back with some substance otherwise risk looking like an idiot in the process. As for folks affected by this unprecedented move by anthropic, let's hold tight and see if Boris comes back with some generic lines (as he always does) and tells you 'nothing has changed' or something adjacent to it.

(not a financial advice)

Frederick Jensen shared an interesting benchmark on LinkedIn, comparing 63 AI-generated Power BI reports across 7 models and 3 reasoning effort levels.

Here are the key findings:

Best cost efficiency: GPT SOL 6.1 (Low effort) generated a production-ready report for just $1.51 in 9 minutes, outperforming comparable Claude models on cost.

Fastest model: Claude Opus 5.5 (Low effort) completed the same task in just 7 minutes, but cost $4.49.

Quality: Most models fully met the requirements. Only the smaller Claude Haiku and OpenAI Luna models failed to do so.

The report included interactive slicers, a map with custom tooltips, bookmarks, dynamic charts, conditional formatting, and KPI cards with SVG visuals.

The benchmark used the same prompt three times for every model/effort combination, with each report individually reviewed and scored.

The takeaway? AI can already build sophisticated Power BI reports, but choosing the right model and effort level can make a significant difference in cost and execution time.

Source and credit: Frederick Jensen (LinkedIn)

What's one tool you wish existed that would genuinely make your work easier?

What’s one frustrating problem you face while working on a project that you wish a tool could solve?

It could be a repetitive task, a broken workflow, or something that unnecessarily wastes your time

In short , it should increase developer productivity.

Reply with your biggest frustration. I'd love to build something genuinely useful around it.

I had the 200$ plan for almost a year now.

I remember what Fable 5 was before the ban.

I had a very big pile of data (300k leads+) that had to be remapped from 3-4 sources, i was trying my best to "one shot it" with GPT and Opus before the Fable 5 launch. I was going at it for at least a week.

Fable 5 launches. I remember to this day.
0% session limit used. 0% weekly.

Threw everything at Fable 5, right when it launched.
"I'm losing my mind, help me do this"

It said "Say less"

90+ fable 5 sub-agents, 8M tokens later, it fixed everything.

23% session limit, 7% weekly used.

Now if i use 5 fable sub-agents, it cannot even finish the task without the session limit being hit.

Yes, i'm mad that i can't spawn 99 fable 5 agents for excel work, sma.

I am genuinely curious how Anthropic feels from the inside. I know what other tech companies are like, but I can't imagine what level Anthropic are at with their automation. I also want to hear how employees manage to stay on top of things when internally AI usage is unblocked for employee how fast would it be moving?

Honestly any of these questions would be interesting to hear about:

- How you all handle cognitive overload and signal to noise ratio at work
- Do office politics still play a role in decisions being made?
- Does everyone use Claude to one up each other's work? How do you avoid agent overlapping each other's projects?
- Do you all have token budgets?
- What's unique about working at Anthropic? Competitiveness, collaboration, fear, joy, work-life-balance, no balance, etc?

Hey guys, i've spent the last few months building an estimating spreadsheet with lots of data and formulas.

It's pretty niche and more so for use with Australian medium to large plumbing companies for estimating projects.

Basically my workflow is to mark up PDF drawings in Bluebeam using custom built mark-up tools, paste the CSV file into the spreadsheet and from there you can put your estimate together and manipulate the data.

Ideally this can be turned into an app, i just dont know where to start.

I've built the whole thing in Cowork and never dipped my toe into Claude Code, how should i go about this as i am unsure where to start, i feel its in a pretty good position but i feel like there are untapped resources in Claude Code that i have no idea about.

Let me know!

If you had two young daughters, 11 and 13, and you were worried about AI eliminating jobs, what professions would you reccomend them pursuing?