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No Money, No Honey: How Anthropic Takes Your $200/Month and Gives You 84% Uptime with Zero Compensation

While waiting yet again for Claude's servers to come back online, I decided to calculate exactly how much money I'm losing. The results were worse than I expected.

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💸 The Math They Don't Want You To Do

I pay $200/month for Claude Max 20x. Here's what I actually get:

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{
  "items" : [
    {
      "source" : {
        "uri" : "s3://path/to/file.mp4",
        "metadata" : {}
      },
      "destination" : {
        "uri" : "youtube://owner/channel-id",
        "metadata" : {