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Re: Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode

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post #33

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Dario has stated multiple times he doesn't believe there is any value in open-weight models. Not surprised. This is not the behavior of an innovative company - it is fear-driven. They are seeing a rapidly shrinking moat.

This exactly. Kimi 2.5 has coding performance hardly discernible from Claude. The only way to maintain a business edge is to crush open source clients to force people into a closed ecosystem. Once there, create context moat where people are not in control of their own context data (cannot export it to open tooling). Maybe we can call it the Oracle play? It’ll be interesting to see if companies get tricked. I think it…

thats only because kimi 2.5 was trained using data stolen from claude. it wouldnt exist without riding claudes coat tails. none of the so called 'open source' models would

Re: Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode

#153
post #98

I'm really struggling to understand how Anthropic is benefited by not allowing this. Its bad PR for no good reason. The only thing I can figure is that Claude Code is hemorrhaging money, they're too afraid to actually enforce reasonable token limits, and the only thing that's keeping it from totally bankrupting the company tomorrow is: controlling the harness and having the harness dynamically route toward Haiku or S…

I use both.. Claude Code memory smokes OpenCode's lack of it when memory is important.

Re: Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode

#154
post #98

I'm really struggling to understand how Anthropic is benefited by not allowing this. Its bad PR for no good reason. The only thing I can figure is that Claude Code is hemorrhaging money, they're too afraid to actually enforce reasonable token limits, and the only thing that's keeping it from totally bankrupting the company tomorrow is: controlling the harness and having the harness dynamically route toward Haiku or S…

Since I discovered pi I cancelled my Claude subscription and subscribed to ChatGPT. On one hand, the competition is making miracles. On the other hand, it's pretty dooming that there is only one (1) company that keeps my agent cost reasonable.

Re: Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode

#155
post #98

I'm really struggling to understand how Anthropic is benefited by not allowing this. Its bad PR for no good reason. The only thing I can figure is that Claude Code is hemorrhaging money, they're too afraid to actually enforce reasonable token limits, and the only thing that's keeping it from totally bankrupting the company tomorrow is: controlling the harness and having the harness dynamically route toward Haiku or S…

They're trying for the vertical integration monopoly.

The times it works, it works well for the company at great cost to society.

Imagine the world we'd have if comcast got to control your web browsing experience.

If ISPs got started today, they'd sell the open web at API prices that no one can afford. Then sell the ISP's lock-in 'internet' for a low monthly fee.

My question is why people who don't want comcast's internet think other vertical integrated lock-in is fine.

Our markets game only works for the benefit of society if we have fair markets.

VC-backed loss-leader dumping to starve competition model breaks the game.

Re: Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode

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I still think Anthropic should've bought Clawdbot/OpenClaw. Feels like a missed business opportunity to expand your market share by capitalizing on the hype.

Why should they pay money for such crappy software?

OpenClaw is underwhelming, and its founder is basically a hype machine.

Re: Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode

#157
post #16

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This argument has been decapitated countless times already on HN. Anthropic already enforce usage limits for everyone . If those limits are higher than what they want users to actually consume, that's Anthropic's problem. This move is anti-competitive and Anthropic knows it. They're hurriedly trying to lock the gates and lay landmines behind everyone after a massive surge of new subscribers so that they're stuck usin…

> This argument has been decapitated countless times already on HN. No it hasn't, because the argument is completely correct, and the people mad about it are mad they can't have unlimited usage instead of paying the token API prices. > This move is anti-competitive and Anthropic knows it. No it isn't, that's not what "anti-competitive" means, and no court in the world would label it as such. You can't go flailing aro…

API is intended for massive scaled operations (companies) and has no hard usage limits, a subscription is intended only for individual usage (solo dev) and has therefore hard usage limits. Is it that difficult to grasp the difference between API and subscription models?

Re: Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode

#158
post #98

I'm really struggling to understand how Anthropic is benefited by not allowing this. Its bad PR for no good reason. The only thing I can figure is that Claude Code is hemorrhaging money, they're too afraid to actually enforce reasonable token limits, and the only thing that's keeping it from totally bankrupting the company tomorrow is: controlling the harness and having the harness dynamically route toward Haiku or S…

My guess is that the telemetry data they can collect from interacting with claude code is the "secret sauce" behind a lot of the improvements we're seeing with coding models right now. Look at cursors Composer-2 release today. Clicking "accept" during plan mode, committing changes and pushing to a remote repo, etc. is a really strong reward signal. Can't collect telemetry from applications you don't control.

Yep, I suspect this is the rationale/driver too.

Re: Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode

#159
post #48

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Ever since the shutdown of the side-load they've been pretty vocally anti-anthropic on twitter. Paranoid that anthropic is going to torpedo them via some backdoor now that they own bun, insinuating that anthropic shut down the auth from a position of weakness since OpenCode is a superior product, etc. The thing is OpenCode IS a great product, I'm not sure it's "superior", but unfortunately the way things are evolving…

> Paranoid that anthropic is going to torpedo them via some backdoor Like with lawyers or something?

Rather the hypothetical situation where anthropic makes a code change to bun to have a backdoor.

Anthropic leadership is delusional, not suicidal, so they would rather use their lawyers.

Re: Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode

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I still think Anthropic should've bought Clawdbot/OpenClaw. Feels like a missed business opportunity to expand your market share by capitalizing on the hype.

Why should they pay money for such crappy software?

This whole thread is people repeating wrong facts that have been clarified 100x in the previous threads on the same issue.

I wonder why conversation can never progress. When a stake goes in the ground, it never ever comes out.

FWIW OpenAI didn't buy OpenClaw.

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