OpenAI won a lot of good favor for the generous Codex subscription and the efficiency of their models, but now that many people have switched over from Claude, they think they can leverage their position to peddle a stream of unnecessary products, and crack down on the generous limits[1] that brought everyone to Codex in the first place.
Anthropic did the same thing. Earlier this year, Claude subs and Claude Code took off because of the subscription's incredible capability and value, then once they gained enough users, they started focusing on unnecessary products no one asked for (see Claude in Slack), and eventually lost their lead. After losing a bunch of customers to Codex subs they realized their mistake, and now they're shipping again.
AI companies are bad at making software; they are good at making AI models. And that's about it.
Basically an easier way of doing things we could probably do with custom scripts.
For instance, we rotate reviews (we post to Slack to ask for code reviews) between reviewers on a team with Claude Tag, and we also remind reviewers (in Slack) if it's been more than 24 hours since the review went up and they haven't started it yet.
johnfahey · · focus · HN ↗
Anthropic did the same thing. Earlier this year, Claude subs and Claude Code took off because of the subscription's incredible capability and value, then once they gained enough users, they started focusing on unnecessary products no one asked for (see Claude in Slack), and eventually lost their lead. After losing a bunch of customers to Codex subs they realized their mistake, and now they're shipping again.
AI companies are bad at making software; they are good at making AI models. And that's about it.
[1] <a href="https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2104823812042940713" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2104823812042940713
hungryhobbit · · focus · HN ↗
Hey, I never asked for it, but Slack Claude (ie. Claude Tag) has actually turned out to be a useful tool for a few things.
N_Lens · · focus · HN ↗
hungryhobbit · · focus · HN ↗
For instance, we rotate reviews (we post to Slack to ask for code reviews) between reviewers on a team with Claude Tag, and we also remind reviewers (in Slack) if it's been more than 24 hours since the review went up and they haven't started it yet.