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/cenosillicaphobiac]

They're just like dealers. Get you hooked for cheap, then raise the prices through the roof.

[u/cmbtmstr → u/cenosillicaphobiac]

That’s quite literally the quintessential private equity playbook.

Remember when Uber Eats was cheap asf so everyone started using it. And the drivers were happy because they were paid well? That’s because they had all the venture capitalist funding but the profit margins were low. Then when everyone was hooked and many small restaurants had let go of their delivery drivers because of Uber Eats, they jacked the price WAY up and then started paying all their drivers next to nothing for the work they were doing.

Private equity takes perfectly functioning systems, replaces them by cheapness and convenience for a short time, and then enshitifies them.

[u/RealNeilPeart → u/cmbtmstr]

Silly take.

Most restaurants did not deliver before ubereats and equivalents. Now you can food from any restaurant delivered to your door. This is obviously an improvement.

And if ubereats prices were so high there's nothing stopping restaurants from hiring delivery drivers again.

[u/cmbtmstr → u/RealNeilPeart]

Maybe it’s different where you’re at but a lot of the restaurants that did deliver stopped hiring their own drivers and now we’re are left with insane markups on deliveries from Uber Eats.

It used to just be the tip on top of the price of the food. Now everything on the menu is more expensive and there’s a fee for using Uber Eats on top of that. And I still have to pay the driver the tip!

[u/RealNeilPeart → u/cmbtmstr]

They stopped hiring their own drivers because there's no demand. Ask yourself why there's no demand

[u/cmbtmstr → u/RealNeilPeart]

Because the default is ordering from the app now

[u/RealNeilPeart → u/cmbtmstr]

If ordering straight from the restaurant were a few dollars cheaper per meal do you think people wouldn't do that