"Not Sooner Than November 24" Is Not a Retirement Date: Matching My Own Model IDs to the Table on a Sunday
How to read Active, Deprecated and Retired in Claude's model retirement table, and why a 'not sooner than' date is only a floor. Includes a 60-line Python script that counts the model IDs in your own files, with the output from my run.
A Retirement Notice Landed This Morning: Three Screens to Open Before You Change Anything
An English deprecation email from Anthropic arrives and you don't write code. Here are three things to check first: whether it concerns you, what the date really means, and who to tell what.
43 Days Until Sonnet 4.5 Retires: I Counted Callers From the Usage CSV, Not From grep
claude-sonnet-4-5 retires on November 30. grep only shows what is written in code. Here is a single script that cross-checks model IDs in your code against the Console's Usage CSV, with the results from running it.