News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Claude Code Daily Benchmarks for Degradation Tracking by copilot_king on Thursday January 29, 2026 @11:37AM (#46812539)
This strategy seems inspired by TikTok's approach for retaining new uploaders.

TikTok used to give new uploaders a visibility boost (i.e., an inflated number of likes and comments) on their first couple of uploads, to get them hooked on the the service.

In Anthropic/Claude's case, the strategy is (allegedly) to give new users access to the premium models on sign-up, and then increasingly cut the product with output from cheaper models.

Re:Claude Code Daily Benchmarks for Degradation Tracking by chrisjj on Thursday January 29, 2026 @12:23PM (#46813274)
Yes, but the difference is TikTok didn't sell a particular service version.

Anthropic did sell a particular model version.