So does Claude provide all of the value to those billable hours?

> Author: A paying Max 20x customer who's done subsidizing Anthropic's infrastructure problems

Shouldn't that be the other way around? Isn't every LLM provider losing money? Especially on premium subscriptions.

> 5+ days unable to work in January-February 2026

Perhaps not the best idea to be this dependent on a product.

Unless SLA (or equivalent) is specifically mentioned in the T&S (which isn't), I don't see why Anthropic would ever compensate anyone. Measuring uptime and performance is meaningful and valuable, but expecting compensation is a completely different question.

If you don't like it, go use someone else's product. There are plenty of choices.

“Mid level developer $150 per day”, is that a joke?

Also the math in this gist doesnt math.

So maybe the chargeout rate is highly informative.

2/10 would not read again.

The way you have portrayed it makes it sound like your clients should be paying Claude rather than you for the work, maybe you could take some kind of broker fee. But is your AI assistant being down really as crippling as you make it sound? But I understand your frustration, $200 is a lot of money.

Before anyone jumps to conclusions and wastes time, the OP's account is new, github repo is empty https://github.com/LEX8888

All gists smell like AI-generated.

You're _probably_ going to reply to a bot.

Sad to see this on the HN front page.

Please. This just feels so entitled. Infra is hard, hyper scale ai infra is like three years old as a discipline, api based calls would cost 10x the subscription. I guess you can always cancel!

Isn't it our responsibility to own our dependencies? I get this is frustrating, but if your client deliverables hinge on your $200 subscription to meet, you need to figure out some redundancy.

The need to reimburse for time down, but not for lost revenue/opportunity. That's our responsibility, as builders, to plan for.

What a deeply embarrassing thing to post.

I've got no dog in this fight, since I don't use any AI, but the math feels unfinished in this. Calculated the $150USD/day for the loss, but not the $X for how much the app is speeding you up when you are able to use it. Obviously the net loss would be the benefit minus the loss. So, unless the claim is that you use the AI and it gives you no performance enhancement whatsoever (in which case, why use it?), then the numbers are a bit incomplete.

That said, I do feel like this is just one person's way of coming around to the realization that they don't actually need this product. At least not in this form. One more step towards normalizing local-only llms that produce better results with smaller scopes and fewer resources.

This is inane.

Someone posing as a freelance dev trying to con Anthropic out of money they themselves would be incapable of making on their own.

Can't even write their own impassioned write-up.

Whoever prompted Claude to write this: figure out what YOU can do that's actually marketable. You don't seem to have found it yet.