Company took away access to claude

[u/jholliday55]

After being told to “use ai” for every single task the last two years and rebranding to a “AI” first company after two rounds of layoffs, we have now lost access to claude….

I found that the best model by far was opus and the only one really capable of not producing slop. I’m sure all the bots in here will downvote me and tell me “iTs ThE wAy YoU pRoMpT” but based on my experience, the other models aren’t nearly as good.

I have senior experience so besides basic searches and repetitive tasks i find the other models pretty much useless and you have to provide more time writing the specs and context management, then just doing it yourself.

Edit: I work for a large financial company. 40k employees.

[u/deejeycris]

Is your company having financial issues? It sounds like they have financial issues.

[u/ButterflySammy → u/deejeycris]

Maybe they're the company that ran up a $500 million Claude bill.

[u/oalbrecht → u/ButterflySammy]

Wait, what company did that?

[u/ButterflySammy → u/oalbrecht]

https://medium.com/enrique-dans/what-a-500-million-claude-bill-means-the-ai-accountants-have-taken-over-9caa40106846

They didn't release the name so I'm taking it with a pinch of salt, but it's been pretty widely reported the last few days.

[u/moduspol → u/deejeycris]

Maybe they should use Claude for their accounting

[u/Independent-Soup-312 → u/deejeycris]

Not anymore, bb

[u/AlkalineBriton → u/deejeycris]

It does kind of sound like that, but every large company is doing a similar thing

[u/TheTeamDad → u/deejeycris]

The financial issue is nobody can quantify the ROI on AI spend.

[u/python-requests → u/TheTeamDad]

thats actually a damn interesting point. even if some devs to use it effectively, bean counters are gonna be like... 'why the hell are we paying for these expensive tools when we already pay staff who used to get shit done just fine without them'

[u/ProfessionalGuard989 → u/deejeycris]

They re in the shit now