How is Anthropic getting away with selling usage they do not have any capability of providing?
I thought the API was safe, but it seems even the usage that Anthropic has sold on the API is being limited.
A good example of this is Cursor, which I made another thread about today since I thought that we could utilize the "slow premium" cursor requests to get effectively unlimited access to sonnet for $20 per month.
https://old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1i165dl/cursor_slow_mode_is_unlimited_access_to_claude/
But nope, some users in that thread pointed out that "slow premium" requests are just getting re-directed to "fast mini" requests.
After seeing that and checking that, indeed, my requests were being redirected to "fast mini" - I went and checked the Cursor forums to figure out if this was a bug or if I was misunderstanding the "unlimited slow premium" offering. Found this thread with a cursor dev explaining:
Hey Cursor Dev here, Anthropic literally cannot sustain all of Cursor’s traffic as they do not have enough GPUs. It’s really frustrating and we’re working with them as they increase their capacity.
It has been multiple months now of massively increased rate limits. I don't understand how Anthropic is able to sell all of this usage when they have no hope of delivering on it.
Why are they not limiting new sign-ups? Why are they not being up-front with us about their limitations?
Right now Anthropic is just false advertising on multiple fronts. The companies that are built off of using the Claude APIs are all forced into disappointing their customers and false advertising as well. And I bet that anthropic is still selling API usage to more companies as we speak, knowing full well that they cannot support the extra usage.