Post #2578748
2026-04-22 21:08 UTC
Part three - yesterday, Anthropic ran a fake door test on new signups, showing Claude Code as unavailable on the Pro plan, indicating that it would only be available on Max ($100 a month) plans and above. You could argue this is also growth hacking and not *just* about removing access for Pro subscribers. No Pro subscriber lost access to Claude Code, but it showed the appetite to raise that bar was there, to start not-so-gently sliding the rug.
https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2046782134166114482
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@rhysmorgan@mastodon.social 2026-04-22 21:14
My biggest concern is that many companies have focused in on using AI purely to pump out more features, more code, more PRs, fewer human-driven reviews, less human accountability for what makes it into a product. That is a truly poisonous use of this genuinely useful technology (useful when wielded correctly). Is it perfect, no. But is any tool perfect? Companies have felt pushed to build harnesses, workflows, everything around LLMs - often in places where existing, normal scripts/apps would do!