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NoClaude Code · 12 Apr 2026

A week later the EVP had to send out an email telling people to stop using Opus because they were burning through too many tokens

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In the thread “Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: No migration plan and excessive token usage.

… There was no migration plan - the EVP of Technology just gave a demo showing 2 greenfield projects he'd built with Claude Opus over a weekend and told everyone to copy how he worked. A week later the EVP had to send out an email telling people to stop using Opus because they were burning through too many tokens. Claude seems to be getting nerfed every week since we've switched. …