Just pay for the API access.
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#12If I have a team of developers should I be enforcing this type of multi-agent setup for development? Has this tech reached the level of being better than your above average developer at implementing well specified features? Has anyone had success doing this?
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#13Huh? You don't need all of this to program effectively with Claude. You just need a daft idea, a bad API sketch and patience. A large vocabulary of insults and swear words goes a long way as well.
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#14If I have a team of developers should I be enforcing this type of multi-agent setup for development? Has this tech reached the level of being better than your above average developer at implementing well specified features? Has anyone had success doing this?
No. Just, no to all of this
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#15If I have a team of developers should I be enforcing this type of multi-agent setup for development? Has this tech reached the level of being better than your above average developer at implementing well specified features? Has anyone had success doing this?
If you're an engineering manager, you should communicate with your team, know their strengths and weaknesses, stay sharp on modern technique, and, most importantly, ask them what workflows work best for them, not us on Hacker News.
If you're hiring a consultancy or a pile of freelancers it's a bit different, but the question here would make me believe you don't trust their capability to start and I would be looking for teams that better align with what you expect as their outputs.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
They banned it because it’s the current way tech companies are expected to operate.
It sounds pretty reasonable to me that they sell a subscription without API access at a different price than the one with that feature. It's obviously a very useful feature or the workaround wouldn't exist, right? To me it sounds like the CLI subscription is a loss-leader designed to get you hooked so you'll upgrade once you realize it's valuable enough to pay extra for the "premium" features. It also sounds pretty r…
The cli subscription actually actively cannibalizes the API business in my experience. I think this is a product decision: if you use it to code, they want to control the user experience.
If you use it to back up 100,000 MAUs, then they want you to use the API.
I was originally an API user but the cli subscription is so much cheaper that I switched over. This is a combination of th CLI getting much more useful and reasoning models using many more tokens.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
They banned it because it’s the current way tech companies are expected to operate.
It sounds pretty reasonable to me that they sell a subscription without API access at a different price than the one with that feature. It's obviously a very useful feature or the workaround wouldn't exist, right? To me it sounds like the CLI subscription is a loss-leader designed to get you hooked so you'll upgrade once you realize it's valuable enough to pay extra for the "premium" features. It also sounds pretty r…
Comparing this to API access feels odd to me. Opencode does not magically convert your subscription into API usage. It is just an alternative to the official CLI. It has a web UI, smoother UX, and less flickering. Nothing groundbreaking, but it is pretty annoying that even something as simple as tagging files with @ is still so laggy.
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#18This seems great, but installing a bunch of prompt from an hackernews/github account with no history seems like something you shouldn't do. Especially with "silent auto-upgrade".
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#19Terrible name…
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
It sounds pretty reasonable to me that they sell a subscription without API access at a different price than the one with that feature. It's obviously a very useful feature or the workaround wouldn't exist, right? To me it sounds like the CLI subscription is a loss-leader designed to get you hooked so you'll upgrade once you realize it's valuable enough to pay extra for the "premium" features. It also sounds pretty r…
Comparing this to API access feels odd to me. Opencode does not magically convert your subscription into API usage. It is just an alternative to the official CLI. It has a web UI, smoother UX, and less flickering. Nothing groundbreaking, but it is pretty annoying that even something as simple as tagging files with @ is still so laggy.
How do you think Claude Code and OpenCode communicate with Anthropic? Through the API. Maybe it's accessed slightly differently for subscription users. Anthropic is saying you can't use the API via a subscription anywhere you want. Only Claude Code can use it that way.