Kent Borg said on Sun, 8 Feb 2026 06:57:26 -0800 >Like the free version of Claude, Claude Code is usage limited. The >limits are higher than for the free account, but they are very real. >
[snip] And so the enshittification begins. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification The limitations will increase so they can upsell more and more. As these gargantuan companies merge or buy each other, limiting competition, little guys like us will be left with inferior stuff almost to the point of uselessness. >P.S. One can change one anniversary date by cancelling and >resubscribing. I don't know what context might be lost in the process. I know that ChatGPT has no facilities for backup, so you have to do manual copy and paste, and their CSS use makes those pastes pretty hard to read. This is not unintentional, and I'll bet you 2 to 1 that if not now, then very soon, when you stop paying the money, all your info disappears. I'll bet Claude will be the same. My suggestion is to limit your Claude use to stuff you really need it for, and spread your other information gathering to various other sources. It's surprising how good Google is for one-off questions: Do the search in the form of a question, and Google's AI gives you a pretty good answer. One more thing: Put everything you learn into one or many text files. Then, when you get a computer with 64GB RAM or 128GB RAM and a big processor, you can install a SLM (Small Language Model) on your computer, train it with your files of learned stuff, and have your own knowledge source. Humorously, I often ask a question on a mailing list or a search engine, only to find out (egg on face) that the answer is on my own website, Troubleshooters.Com. You would be astounded at the information you've learned and forgotten, and a "sovereign" (gotta love that new buzzword) SLM can give you instant recall of all you've ever known, if your wrote it into files. I have the Ollama SLM running on my computer right now, but haven't yet figured out how to train it with my Troubleshooters.Com tree and all the books I've written. N O T E : I'm neither a free rider nor a communist. I believe everybody deserves to make money and they deserve to get a good return on their investment. This is true of the folks bringing us LLMs too. The trouble is, with these big companies, they become monopolies (oligopolies to be exact) and defeat the whole purpose of Capitalism by handcuffing Adam Smith's "invisible hand". SteveT Steve Litt http://444domains.com _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
