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One way of reading this is an article about how good Anthropic's product is. "Look at how many serious flaws users have been willing to accept in order to keep using this thing"
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How does it stifle competition / innovation? You can use other harnesses, pay API for anthropic models or cheap chinese models. You're just upset that you don't get to use their VC money the way you want to use it lol. It either is a good deal or it isn't, if it is just say, thanks free VC money, if it isn't say fuck you.
It would make it impossible for makers of 3rd-party harnesses to compete with Claude Code. This principle is not just limited to LLMs. > You're just upset that you don't get to use their VC money the way you want to use it lol. I don't particularly care about Claude or harnesses.
Also, if other harnesses need to work without the literal SOTA then they need to be better than Claude Code. If their incentive is to reduce token usage then again, they will evolve to be better than CC
One way of reading this is an article about how good Anthropic's product is. "Look at how many serious flaws users have been willing to accept in order to keep using this thing"
IF they were light years ahead of competition, then that would make sense and would be a perfectly valid strategy. But it's not, so you're burning very important bridges that you may need in 3-4 months.
> As of writing, Claude Code CLI only has around 9100 open Github issues, with small unresolved issues like it completely freezing for the last 6+ months or a screen flickering issue open for more than a year. But surely those fully autonomous coding loops will solve all those 9,100+ open issues on GitHub? Why haven't they? What happened to Claude's C Compiler [0], or that browser "built from scratch" by Cursor? [1]…
There seems to be a smear campaign against Anthropic ever since the DoD incident.
OpenAI has a $8B PR budget. Makes you wonder if they'd spend any of that on social media. I saw a guy trashing Anthropic on Threads the other day, looked up his LinkedIn and he worked for OpenAI in PR.
No. It is the primarily the cost of providing their free service.
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Using Electron in this day and age shows a particular lack of effort, considering how easy it is to use an agent harness to build native versions of apps. I mean, we're a tiny little business and we somehow find the bandwidth to do it.
Yet… VS code somehow became the most popular IDE that happens to be generally viewed favorably by most of its users. I personally hate it due to various reasons but I don’t feel like the Electron part is the issue (Java based Jetbrains IDEs generally seem way more bloated)
After testing vs code for a bit everyone realized what hot shit Atom was and jumped ship.
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I don't understand why people care about Electron? Evaluate the quality of the software based on its own merits IMO. VS Code, Slack, Postman, Obsidian.. I use this software every day and my only complaint is Slack's RAM usage (which honestly has no negative effect on my machine, but just seems silly for a messaging app). Claude is a buggy mess because it's slop, not because it's electron. Heck, it runs a full Linux V…
> don't understand why people care about Electron? Most Electron apps are crap because they transparently communicate the developer prioritizing their own efficiency over the trade-offs to UX choosing a cross-platform platform entails. In most cases, I don’t care that an app looks crappy as long as it works. For Anthropic, however, the irony undermines its argument that Claude is ready to replicate developers.
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> So... maybe we can still use third party harnesses with Claude Code subscriptions... for now? The way I read this is: yes, if the third party harness uses Anthropic's Agent SDK. Most of them do not, AFAIK, and are still against ToS (though maybe its not enforced for now)
Something that many don't realize is that Claude Desktop and the Agent SDK are both just wrappers around pools of CLI instances, literally running `claude --input-format stream-json --output-format stream-json`. So this wasn't even about third-party harnesses that replace the toolset Claude has access to, and try to call the Claude API with subsidized credentials. No, this was literally a blessing for their desktop U…
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It reminds me of people who built businesses on top of APIs provided by Facebook, Reddit, etc. One day the company decides to rug pull the public interface, either to replace it with their own competing product or nothing at all. The anti-competitive pratice makes sense but what I don't understand is the latter case, which is common, where the company is just removing possibilities of how users can participate in the…
Wasn't facebooks pull a result of the huge Cambridge analytica scandal.