Anthropic's hostile-to-developer pattern
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8O9LLpJNrg
- Oriiginal title: Seriously, Anthropic??
Theo rants about Anthropic's pattern of hostile-to-developer moves: attempted removal of Claude Code from Pro tier, opaque rate limit changes mid-billing-cycle, and a tone-deaf comms rollout that left paying users guessing.
Specific complaints
- Pro-tier Claude Code allocations cut without warning; the walk-back came only after public outcry.
- Weekly limits introduced on top of the 5h limits with no clear formula for how they interact.
- Banning Windsurf historically when OpenAI was rumored to acquire it — anti-competitive optics that keep recurring.
The structural reason
- All of it traces back to the compute crunch (foreshadowing his later "Anthropic + SpaceX" video). Anthropic is rationing inference and hiding the rationing behind product changes.