$100 doesn't even cover the electricity of running the servers every night, they were abusing a service and now everyone suffers because of them.
I don’t know what is there to be mad about, and using dramatic language like “everyone suffers because of them”
if your actions are defined by legal ToS then no, they didn't do anything wrong. they paid, it's the company's fault for not expecting someone to use 50-100x a reasonable usage.
if your actions are defined by ethical use then you understood that 50-100x the use would inevitably lead to ruining the party for everyone.
it's like a buffet. everyone pays a flat price and can enjoy a big meal for themselves. maybe sometimes having a few extra pieces of cake here and there. until someone shows up and starts stacking plates well beyond any reasonable expectation (not rule based) of a buffet customer. what's the result? stringent rules that are used for legal rather than rational enforcement.
it's obvious that even "reasonable use" is being subsidized, and the company was okay with doing so. until we have people running 10 opus instances in a glutinous orchestra of agents just because they can. now the party is over. and i'd love to know what these claude agencies were even producing running 24/7 on opus. i can't imagine what human being even has the context to process what 24/7 teams of opus can put out. much like i can't imagine the buffet abuser actually enjoying the distending feast. but here we are.
This is clearly what was happening with the most extreme Claude Code users, because it's not actually that smart yet and still requires a human to often be in the loop.
However, Anthropic can't really identify "wasted code".
Why are you assuming everyone will suffer?
They backtested the new limits on usage data and found it will begin to impact less than 5% of users.
But a compute-focused datacenter is probably not paying more than 10 cents per kWh, so $100 would pay for more than a 24/7 kilowatt of GPU plus cooling plus other overhead.
