Reading Anthropic's postmortem and the DEV operational report in the same week reveals that Claude Code's quality degradation and Max weekly quota exhaustion are not separate incidents—they're two sides of the same quality×cost design decisions. A timeline and operational priority walkthrough.
Anthropic Labs released Claude Design on April 17, 2026 — a new design product that reads your codebase and existing design files to generate prototypes, slides, and landing pages. Here is a feature comparison with Figma and Canva, and a scenario-by-scenario guide to which tool to open when.
Measured: Opus 4.7 burns 1.2-1.45x tokens vs 4.6 in community benchmarks (Bill Chambers' Tokenomics Leaderboard, Claude Code Camp), beating Anthropic's official 1.0-1.35x range. CLAUDE.md alone hits 1.4-1.45x.
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 on April 16, 2026. The staged rollout adds an xhigh effort tier, self-verification before returning, and roughly 3x higher-resolution image input, while intentionally capping cyber capability under Project Glasswing.
A breakdown of Claude Code Routines, released as a research preview on April 14, 2026. Covers the three trigger types (schedule, API, GitHub), routine structure, and autonomous execution on Anthropic-managed infrastructure.
Claude Code Max 5x promises '5x Pro,' but the baseline is undisclosed. Usage is shown only as percentages. A silent TTL change and 1.5-hour quota depletion expose the opacity of Anthropic's quota system.
Anthropic's Claude Cowork moves from research preview to general availability, adding RBAC, group spend caps, usage analytics, OpenTelemetry support, Zoom MCP connector, and per-tool access control.
Anthropic's unreleased Claude Mythos Preview discovered thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities including a 27-year OpenBSD bug and a 16-year FFmpeg bug. Deemed too dangerous for public release, it ships exclusively through Project Glasswing to 12 founding partners.
Breakdown of the Claude Code quality-regression issue: an AMD/IREE developer analyzed 17,871 thinking blocks and 234,760 tool calls, linking adaptive-thinking shrinkage and redaction changes to worse coding behavior.
Anthropic expands its partnership with Google and Broadcom to secure multi-gigawatt TPU infrastructure targeting 2027 operations. Annual revenue run rate surpasses $30B, with enterprise customers spending over $1M exceeding 1,000.
An Anthropic researcher used Claude Code to scan the entire Linux kernel source and unearthed a 23-year-old remotely exploitable heap overflow in NFSv4.0. Technical breakdown plus a reality check on what it costs for ordinary users to replicate this.
Claude Code subscriptions no longer cover OpenClaw and other third-party tools. How this differs from the login-token issue, why the 'excessive usage' standard is opaque, and what it means that Anthropic is the only major vendor closing its ecosystem.
