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YesClaude · 6 Apr 2026

I generally feel like we get what we're paying for

garfij on Hacker News

In the thread “Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates”, replying to this comment

Helped: API based plan avoids majority of vocal problems.

Got in the way: Outages and intermittent quality drops.

… Outages still affect us, and we do have the intermittent voodoo feeling of "Claude seems stupider today", but nothing persistent. Of course it's a stupid amount of money sometimes, but I generally feel like we get what we're paying for.