Sam Altman's Joy at Anthropic's Misfortune

On April 21, the Claude pricing page started showing that Claude Code is not included in the Pro plan. This caused quite a storm, and Anthropic's head of growth, Amol Avasare, chimed in to clarify what was happening.

For clarity, we're running a small test on ~2% of new prosumer signups. Existing Pro and Max subscribers aren't affected. https://t.co/CkTiVCTmd7

— Amol Avasare (@TheAmolAvasare) April 21, 2026

Sam Altman took the opportunity to poke at Anthropic.

ok boomer

— Sam Altman (@sama) April 22, 2026

Altman is known for his inflammatory posts, but this time, he also acknowledged that he had been drinking.

tongiht i have had a couple of drinkshttps://t.co/SumpJ45kBc

— Sam Altman (@sama) April 22, 2026

Then, to follow up on his enjoyment of Anthropic's misfortune, Sam posts this benchmark analysis comparing the newly released GPT-5.5 against both Opus 4.7 and Opus 4.6.

"don't retweet this, don't retweet this, don't retweet this..."

ah fuck it, life imitates art. https://t.co/5HYvYXfQzd

— Sam Altman (@sama) April 23, 2026