I see bigger problem with model inconsistency. You never know whether Anthropic will route your request to a cheaper model for the price of Opus. So you can never estimate how much a task will cost, because you might have to restart several times and pay for each attempt. Then you have to prompt models to gauge whether they are real or impostors which also adds to token usage.
2. They are doing lots of shady stuff that would have gotten someone else banned from visa/mastercard. Your paid off plan literally changes after billing...
I think people are letting them fly for now, because if it turns out true that they'll have AGI they want to be on their good side? We might see the knifes getting pulled otherwise.
no they 100% use MTP with a cheaper model alongside opus, and it would infact be unprovable if they just sometimes switched to auto-accepting everything from the MTP. its true that if they did anthropic would need to hide that they do this, so its probably not a huge deal
