The new Qwen3.6-27B just gave me definitely the best pelican riding a bicycle I've had from a 16.8GB model file!
@simonw
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Anthropic Reverts Claude Code Pricing Change After User Backlash
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It doesn't affect coding subscribers and they've already reverted the pricing page change, but are still running a "test" on 2% of new signups https://
simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/22/cl
aude-code-confusion/#they-reversed-it
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Claude Code Pricing Plan Eligibility Question for New Subscribers
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If I sign up for a new $20/month account today and roll the dice and get unlucky (1/50 chance) will I end up not being able to use Claude Code with it, or is the 2% just the chance that I'll see the new pricing grid during the signup flow?
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GitHub Copilot Pauses Signups Amid Major Pricing Changes
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Apparently my blog is mostly about token pricing now, here are some notes on the big changes GitHub Copilot just announced, including pausing new signups entirely
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Anthropic Reverts Pricing Page Change Amid Policy Uncertainty
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Anthropic have now reverted the change to their pricing page, but I've not yet seen any official announcement about what their policies are going to be going forward. More on my blog:
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Anthropic Quietly Restores Claude Code Access for Pro Users
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Anthropic Reverses Claude Code Pricing After Public Backlash
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Wrote up Anthropic's self-own about Claude Code pricing from this afternoon on my blog – it turned out they'd reversed course just as I hit publish, so I've tried to update it to reflect the current state
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Claude Code Pricing Strategy Questioned: $100 Without $20 Trial
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The most puzzling thing about this: if they want people to spend $100/month on Claude Code surely those people need a $20/month option to try it out first? Who's going to drop $100 just to try it?
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How to Enable Summarized Thinking Mode in AI API Settings
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OK, here's a resolution – I managed to get it to think using these settings: "thinking": { "type": "adaptive", "display": "summarized"
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AI Model API No Longer Reports Reasoning Tokens Separately
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https://
gist.github.com/simonw/0f1a370
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… seemed to work – the problem is it no longer reports "reasoning" tokens as a separate line item from output tokens so I couldn't tell if reasoning had happened or not until I turned on the reasoning summary