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Anthropic Explicitly Blocking OpenCode

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Re: Anthropic Explicitly Blocking OpenCode

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Post by dsfiof »

pton_xd wrote: post #5

I do admit to feeling some schadenfreude over them reacting to their product being leeched by others. I get it though, Anthropic has to protect their investment in their work. They are in a position to do that, whereas most of us are not.

Hey! It was a lot of work stealing everything from you, of course you have to pay me a premium to get access to it!

Re: Anthropic Explicitly Blocking OpenCode

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Post by _medihack_ »

refulgentis wrote: post #2

I believe LLM providers should ultimately be utilities from a consumer perspective, like water suppliers. I own the faucet, washer, bathtub, and can switch suppliers at will. I’ve been working on a FOSS client for them for nearly three years. I hope that why the following is purely a factual distinction, not an excuse or an attempt to empathize. The difference between the other entities named and OpenCode is this: Op…

It's exactly like water. Use their API, and you pay as much water as you drink. But visit them in their pub, and you get a pretty big buffet with lots of water for a one-time price.

Re: Anthropic Explicitly Blocking OpenCode

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Post by plusplusungood »

mr_mitm wrote: post #4
refulgentis wrote: post #2

I believe LLM providers should ultimately be utilities from a consumer perspective, like water suppliers. I own the faucet, washer, bathtub, and can switch suppliers at will. I’ve been working on a FOSS client for them for nearly three years. I hope that why the following is purely a factual distinction, not an excuse or an attempt to empathize. The difference between the other entities named and OpenCode is this: Op…

I believe they want you to use the API subscription if you want to use their service with OpenCode. It's possible, just more expensive.

That is analogous to the water company charging you more if you use a faucet from another company. It's not a fair competition.

That's why we are supposed to have legislation to regulate that utilities and common carriers can't behave that way.

Re: Anthropic Explicitly Blocking OpenCode

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Post by chatmasta »

It’ll be interesting to see how far they take this cat and mouse game. Will “model attestation” become a new mechanism for enforcing tight coupling between client and inference endpoint? It could get weird, with secret shibboleths inserted into model weights…

Re: Anthropic Explicitly Blocking OpenCode

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Post by mr_mitm »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #9
refulgentis wrote: post #2

I believe LLM providers should ultimately be utilities from a consumer perspective, like water suppliers. I own the faucet, washer, bathtub, and can switch suppliers at will. I’ve been working on a FOSS client for them for nearly three years. I hope that why the following is purely a factual distinction, not an excuse or an attempt to empathize. The difference between the other entities named and OpenCode is this: Op…

Fwiw, your main point seems scattered across your post where sentences refer to supposed context established by other sentences. It's making it hard to understand your position. Maybe try the style where you start off with your position in a self-contained sentence, and then write a paragraph elaborating on it.

Also, they should try editing their post less frequently. Hard to have a discussion this way.

Re: Anthropic Explicitly Blocking OpenCode

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Post by jmspring »

Have had max for awhile, funny thing opencode still sorta works with my cc max subscription. That said after awhile open code just hangs. My workflow involves saving state frequently. I cancel open back up and continue then it’s performant for maybe 2-3 token context windows, repeat

Re: Anthropic Explicitly Blocking OpenCode

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Post by bflesch »

When using their web UI with Firefox and ublock origin it regularly freezes the tab when the answer is written out. Someone at Anthropic had to create a letter-by-letter typing animation with GIF image and sentry callbacks every five seconds, which ends up in an infinite loop.

I've seen reports about this bug affecting Firefox users since Q3 2025. They were reported over various channels.

Not a fan of them prioritizing the combat against opencode instead of fixing issues that affect paying users.

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