Monologue: What's Going On At Anthropic?

Better Offline

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4.6 • 687 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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In this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron discusses Anthropic’s aggressive new rate limits, the leak of Claude Code’s source code, and the dread consequences of having software written 100% by LLMs.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed human.
0:06.7	Hello and welcome to this week's Better Offline.
0:11.1	I'm your host at Zittron.
0:16.4	So yes, you're getting two monologues this week, because we had a guest pull out last minute, leaving me with just my keyboard, my microphone and a Diet Coke in one of those weird vacuum sealed tubes that really only real Diet Coke freaks on.
0:37.3	And today I'm going to start with a few questions.
0:39.3	What's going on in Anthropic?
0:41.3	What is Dario Amadeh up to?
0:43.3	What do things keep breaking?
0:45.3	Used to be the coders could just launch Claude and run a bunch of sub-agents to look productive.
0:50.3	Think you can rely on Claude code? Guess again.
0:53.3	Dario Amade doesn't care about youry Hamaday doesn't care about you,
0:55.4	and he certainly doesn't care about your family. Anyway, to set the scene, I need to give you a few
1:01.2	details about Claude Code in general, which you don't pay for Claude Code itself. There's not
1:05.7	like a Claude Code subscription. When you subscribe to Anthropic Service, you pay for a Claude subscription. And you
1:12.7	either pay 20 bucks, 100 bucks or 200 bucks a month, with each tier having more access than the last,
1:17.9	and access meaning rate limits, so you can use it more. Though if you're wondering what that
1:22.1	actually means, that's really by design. As all Anthropic tells you is that you've got a five-hour
1:27.2	limit and a weekly limit on their models with a separate one for Claude Opus, which is their more expensive, more complex one.
1:34.0	An important detail is that these subscriptions are also heavily subsidized. When you pay Anthropic $200 a month, you're not paying on a per token rate, which is what AI start-ups have to do.
1:44.6	They pay per million input and output tokens. No, no, no. You just do stuff and stuff comes out.
1:50.6	And you're able to do the same things you would have used in the API, but you're burning tokens.
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