Perhaps the subscription part of the business is so heavily subsidized that they have no choice but to reduce the cost.

Or they don’t have enough compute to handle the recent influx of traffic. I’m guessing it’s a bit of both.

If Claude Code truly was worth something they'd sell it instead of forcing its use with a subscription.

Incredible take. They are selling it.

No, they are not. People just want the model. Let people bring their own harness to their Anthropic subscription and see who's still using CC.

You literally can't use your Anthropic subscription that you paid for with any agent other than CC; you have to pay by the token. We've talked about this a lot; check the history.

Saying "you can use any other agent, just pay 20x more through the API!" does not demonstrate a realistic choice.

Isn’t this the point? People use CC for the model, not the harness. So the harness can be slop and it doesn’t matter.

You don't have to go at it alone, share your idea(s) and get a pixel artist to join.

Think about how much time you invested in to learning programming. If you're not prepared to do the same for art it's better to get someone else to do it. Especially if you don't enjoy it.

Do you have recommendations on where to share ideas to find like-minded people?

In my experience, finding communities is kinda hard

Check out reddit with subreddits like /r/INAT, /r/gameideas or /r/gamedesign.

Or Look at where artists hang out. This could be pixel art forums. Also contact artists that you admire directly (would need to show something here and not merely an idea obviously). Paying for an artist is also worth considering if that's an option.

While a good post the title is a bit ambiguous. The post is about applications created using AI not applications with AI functionality embedded.

> approximate any continuous function

It wouldn't surprise me if many interesting functions we'd like to approximate aren't continuous at all.

This is one of the reasons current AI tech is so poor at learning physical world dynamics.

Relationships in the physical world are sparse, metastable graphs with non-linear dynamics at every resolution. And then we measure these dynamics using sparse, irregular sampling with a high noise floor. It is just about the worst possible data model for conventional AI stacks at a theoretical level.

This is what softmax [1] is for.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softmax_function

Surely they aren't selling subscriptions at a loss to gain market share either.

They could allow unlocking the phone by burying that option deep in the settings with scary warnings etc. Most people could use the device with the restrictions. The fact that this is not possible at all is greed.

One of the first things help desk scammers do is convince people to turn off antivirus and/or Windows Defender on their computers.

If they did that, every influencer would make youtube videos and tik toks telling people how they should enable that setting to make their phone better or more powerful "for free", and everyone would just do it, especially the people who really shouldn't because they don't know any better.

No they wouldn't. We don't have to speculate about that; Android already has a toggle to allow direct installation of apps, and most people don't turn it on.

Many Android devices allow unlocking the bootloader and gaining root or installing an alternate OS without exploits, and there are quite a few third-party Android builds for supported devices. The process is not beyond what a person of average intelligence and modest computer skills could pull off with some patience and a video guide. Only a handful of tech nerds actually do it.

Perhaps we're making different assumptions, but a process that "is not beyond what a person of average intelligence and modest computer skills could pull off with some patience and a video guide" sounds quite a bit more complex than a mere Unlock option in iPhone settings. Also, the results are different too. The process you've described results in an Android desktop, whereas the proposed iphone unlock process would result in a full macOS desktop, which sounds (to me at least) much more desirable to have.

I stand by my speculation that if it were possible to do that on an iphone, it'd definitely be something loads of people would do, including a large amount of people who shouldn't open their device that way but do just because they watched someone on social media telling them to.

> everyone would just do it

Wouldn't it be better to solve that with education? Also MacOS gives you a warning when you're opening something not vetted by them.

The idea that it's some higher authorities responsibility to keep us safe quickly slides into losing freedoms we care about.

Would you also like all websites to be ISP-approved?

We could also have all social media filtered through LLM guards to keep us safe?

Maybe link our IDs to our online identity to protect our kids.

MacOS does more than just give you a warning when you're opening a program not vetted by them -- it prevents you from opening it, so that's not really a good example of education, and is in fact an example of lockdown.

I'm not arguing that anything get any more locked down than it already is, so your points (while possibly valid in a bigger discussion) don't make a lot of sense here in this discussion about a hypothetical "unlock phone" setting.

Yep. Scammers have managed to get people to install profiles on their devices so they can run non-appstore approved scam apps.

If they believe a sufficient number is locked in then they may consider doing this later.

If Claude Code is so much better why not make users pay to use it instead of forcing it on subscribers?

If these LLMs and tools create real valuable products, where are they?

Shouldnt there be dedicated youtubers showibg us thwir skillz?

Even if it would work good luck writing with a new style.