Yeah, there’s also a particularly American version of Catholicism that hates the Church and its teachings, who include among their adherents the Vice President and at least one Supreme Court Justice if not several. While one would hope they would learn the lessons of history, the particular details of the theocracy they envision probably won’t break down along the same lines as past conflicts.

This sucks but is not surprising at all. Anthropic has more demand than it could ever fulfill, and looking into support tickets asking for refunds is never going to get anyone’s attention. If you actually want the money back, assuming you live in the US, this is what small-claims court is for.

The fact that denizens of HN think that taking a company to small-claims court is a reasonable approach to getting refunds :: SMH

The limits are smaller now, is how.

Then why not update their chart to at least say that? The numbers (shading, actually) on the chart are not absolute numbers, they're relative, so just make it look as if I spent a lot of time on it. If they're gonna change their limits without being clear about it, at least go all the way. Right now, I can go, "See, you're actually saying I didn't use that much compared to the limits."

Which is fine, but the way they're tightening the screws, and not saying until they announce the results of their A/B tests is very frustrating.

Ironic that this sketchy project hosts itself on GitHub, then.

Yes, and they are in control of Claude Code, so they are fine with that. If it causes problems they can tweak it. If OpenClaw causes problems they can’t.

Because some implementers will need or want to use it.

Which component is the bombardier?

That’s Finance. They don't fly the plane; they just wait for the right moment to drop the bill for those premium tokens.

Everyone on my team has been running into this, including the super users on the Max plan and the skeptics who only use it every few days. The quota is going way faster than it did before, sometimes a single prompt will eat up a third or more of the session quota.

“Ad” doesn’t mean “paid for”. A “tip” linking to some other place, injected into a place with no permission or context, is an “ad” in every meaningful sense (and if this “tip” system were left in place it would soon enough be turned into a pay-for explicit ad system). If someone at Microsoft deludes themselves that they are just trying to be helpful, that doesn’t change the impact and result of their actions.

Updated to add on March 31: Martin Woodward, VP of Developer Relations, GitHub, said in a statement: "GitHub does not and does not plan to include advertisements in GitHub. We identified a programming logic issue with a GitHub Copilot coding agent tip that surfaced in the wrong context within a pull request comment. We have removed agent tips from pull request comments moving forward."

Wow, well that is clearly a bald-faced lie.

They're not even trying. But this time 'the hacker did it' excuse wouldn't hold so they had to come up with something new in a hurry.