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"Anthropic is very likely losing money on every single Claude Code customer, and based on my analysis, appears to be losing hundreds or even thousands of dollars per customer.

There is a gaping wound in the side of Anthropic, and it threatens financial doom for the company.

Some caveats before we continue:

- CCusage is not direct information from Anthropic, and thus there may be things we don’t know about how it charges customers, or any means of efficiency it may have.
- Despite the amount of evidence I’ve found, we do not have a representative sample of exact pricing. This evidence comes from people who use Claude Code, are measuring their usage, and elected to post their CCusage dashboards online — which likely represents a small sample of the total user base.
- Nevertheless, the amount of cases I’ve found online of egregious, unrelentingly unprofitable burn are deeply concerning, and it’s hard to imagine that these examples are outliers.
- We do not know if the current, unrestricted version of Claude Code will last.

The reason I’m leading with these caveats is because the numbers I’ve found about the sheer amount of money Claude Code’s users are burning are absolutely shocking.

In the event that they are representative of the greater picture of Anthropic’s customer base, this company is wilfully burning 200% to 3000% of each Pro or Max customer that interacts with Claude Code, and in each price point’s case I have found repeated evidence that customers are allowed to burn their entire monthly payment in compute within, at best, eight days, with some cases involving customers on a $200-a-month subscription burning as much as $10,000 worth of compute."

wheresyoured.at/anthropic-is-b

Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At · Anthropic Is Bleeding OutHello premium customers! Feel free to get in touch at ez@betteroffline.com if you're ever feeling chatty. And if you're not one yet, please subscribe and support my independent brain madness. Also, thank you to Kasey Kagawa for helping with the maths on this. Soundtrack: Killer Be Killed -

"We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't."

bsky.app/profile/metr.org/post

Bluesky Social · METR (@metr.org)We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

"I think this highlights a few interesting trends.

Firstly, the era of VC-subsidized tokens may be coming to an end, especially for products like Cursor which are way past demonstrating product-market fit.

Secondly, that $200/month plan for 20x the usage of the $20/month plan is an emerging pattern: Anthropic offers the exact same deal for Claude Code, with the same 10x price for 20x usage multiplier.

Professional software engineers may be able to justify one $200/month subscription, but I expect most will be unable to justify two. The pricing here becomes a significant form of lock-in - once you've picked your $200/month coding assistant you are less likely to evaluate the alternatives."

simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/5/c

Simon Willison’s WeblogCursor: Clarifying Our PricingCursor changed their pricing plan on June 16th, introducing a new $200/month Ultra plan with "20x more usage than Pro" and switching their $20/month Pro plan from "request limits to …

🧠💻 Been using Cursor with AI to speed up PHP development — and it’s a game changer.

From cleaning up old code to suggesting better patterns, it’s like having a second brain right in the IDE.
No more getting stuck on dumb stuff.

#PHP#AI#Cursor

Cursor’s Browser App Lets AI Agents Fix Code From Anywhere

> With this week’s web app launch, the #Cursor experience now stretches across the #IDE, #Slack, and #browser.

The #web app supports background #agents that can:

- Write features
- Fix bugs
- Monitor task status
- Share unique URLs for team oversight
- Merge finished code

gazeon.site/cursors-browser-ap

GazeOn · Cursor’s Browser App Lets AI Agents Fix Code From AnywhereBy GazeOn Team
#ai#agent#aiagent

Nowerdays competition:

#AWS (replace with your cloud provider) bill ----->|
#Cursor (replace with your #LLM / #GPT provider) bill --------->|

But the winners are power plant owners, or/and fuel suppliers...

Lossers in that competitive game are the most parts of the planet with whether anomalies touched by heatwaves.

200 Dollar im Monat für ein KI-Coding-Tool – ist Cursor Ultra wirklich das Geld wert? Anysphere will mit mehr Power, exklusiven Features und Priorität beim Rollout punkten. Doch gegen OpenAI & Co. wird das schwer. Was denkst Du: Zukunft oder Nische? #Cursor #OpenAI #KI 👇
all-ai.de/news/news24/cursor-u

All-AI.de200-Dollar-Tarif für Code-Profis: Cursor Ultra ist daMehr Power, mehr Credits, mehr Kontrolle – doch kann Anysphere mit seinem neuen Preisplan gegen OpenAI und Co. bestehen?
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By way of follow-on, Cursor wrote me a function that uses type checks to decide which conditional branch to call.

Junior Dev Cursor: you want polymorphism, my friend.

This is the kind of thing that may get covered in a Object Oriented Programming 201 kind of course: If you're branching on type, this is screaming out for an interface/protocol/class family.

OO 310 will teach you: don't create too many families or families that are too deep or ouch time. Sometimes, composition works better than inheritance. Choose wisely. This decision requires judgement (hence experience).

#swift#swiftui#ai