I want them to cut off these electron wrappers. If there's no tokens going to these third parties, the more they can keep subsidizing my claude code usage.
Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients
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Re: Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients
#112Honestly very confused by the people happy or agreeing with Anthropic here. You can use their API on a pay-per-use basis, or (as I interpreted the agreement) you can prepay as a subscription and use their service with hourly & weekly session limits. What's changed is that I thought I was subscribing to use their API services, claude code as a service. They are now pushing it more as using only their specific CLI tool…
Because they get no telemetry or usage data if you use a third party tool.
Just pay per token if you want to use third party tools. Stop feeling entitled to other people's stuff.
Re: Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients
#113They did not. Anthropic is protecting its huge asset: the Claude Code value chain, which has proven itself to be a winner among devs (me included, after trying everything under the sun in 2025). If anything, Anthropic's mistake is that they are incapable of monetizing their great models in the chat market, where ChatGPT reigns: ie. Anthropic did not invest in image generation, Google did and Gemini has a shot at the…
I rather have a product that is only good at one single thing than mid for everything else especially when the developer experience for me is much more consistent than using gemini and chatgpt to the point that I only have chatgpt for productivity reasons and also sometimes making better prompts to claude (when I don't use claude to make a better prompt). After realizing that Anthropic is discounting token usages for…
You’re asking two different LLMs to help you talk more better to another LLM?
Re: Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients
#114I want to like Anthropic, they have such a great knowledge sharing culture and their content is bar none, but then they keep pulling stuff like this... I just can't bring myself to trust their leadership's values or ethics. that and they "stole" my money
I would disagree on the knowledge sharing. They're the only major AI company that's released zero open weight models. Nor do they share any research regarding safety training, even though that's supposedly the whole reason for their existence.
I agree with you on your examples, but would point out there are some places they have contributed excellent content.
In building my custom replacement for Copilot in VS Code, Anthropic's knowledge sharing on what they are doing to make Claude Code better has been invaluable
Re: Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients
#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is so much low-hanging fruit in the tooling side right now. There's no way Anthropic alone can stay ahead of it all -- we need lots of different teams trying different things. I myself have been building a special-purpose vibe-coding environment and it's just astounding how easy it is to get great results by trying totally random ideas that are just trivial to implement. Lots of companies are hoping to win here…
Yep. And in a way this has always been the story. It's why there's just so few companies making $$ in the pure devtooling space. I have no idea what JetBrain's financials are like, but I doubt they're raking in huge $$ despite having very good tools & unfortunately their attempts to keep abreast of the AI wave have been middling. Basically, I need Claude Code with a proper review phase built in. I need it to slow-the…
> Basically, I need Claude Code with a proper review phase built in. I need it to slow-the-fuck-down and work with me more closely instead of shooting mountains of text at me and making me jam on the escape key over and over (and shout WTF I didn't ask for that!) at least twice a day.
It sounds like you want Codex (for the second part)
Re: Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients
#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's nothing stopping you from using OpenCode with any other provider, including Anthropic: you just can't get the subsidised pricing while doing so. This is irritating, yes - it certainly disincentivises me from trying out OpenCode - but it's also, like, not unexpected? In any case, the long-term solution for true openness is to be able to run open-weight models locally or through third-party inference providers.
Yes but why are they subsidizing the pricing and requiring to use their closed source client to benefit from it? It’s the same reason the witch in the story of Hansel and Gretel was giving out free candy.
Yes, why is there a discount when I buy a bundle? This is clearly sign of nefarious behaviour.
Re: Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients
#117They did not. Anthropic is protecting its huge asset: the Claude Code value chain, which has proven itself to be a winner among devs (me included, after trying everything under the sun in 2025). If anything, Anthropic's mistake is that they are incapable of monetizing their great models in the chat market, where ChatGPT reigns: ie. Anthropic did not invest in image generation, Google did and Gemini has a shot at the…
> ie. Anthropic did not invest in image generation, Google did and Gemini has a shot at the market now.
They're after the enterprise market - where office / workspace + app + directory integration, security, safety, compliance etc. are more important. 80% of their revenue is from enterprise - less churn, much higher revenue per W/token, better margins, better $/user.
Microsoft adopting the Anthropic models into copilot and Azure - despite being a large and early OpenAI investor - is a much bigger win than yet another image model used to make memes for users who balk at spending $20 per month.
Same with the office connector - which is only available to enterprises[0] (further speaking to where their focus is). There hasn't yet been a "claude code" moment for office productivity, but Anthropic are the closest to it.
[0] This may be a mistake as Claude Code has been adopted from the ground up
Re: Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients
#118"they utterly failed to consider the second-order effects of this business decision"
Or maybe they did consider but were capital/ inference capacity constrained to keep serving at this pricepoint. Pretty sure without any constraints they would eagerly go for 100% market share.
CC users give them the reigns to the agentic process. Non CC users take (mostly indirect) control themselves. So if you are forced to slow growth, where do you push the break (by charging defacto more per (api) token)?
Re: Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients
#119I think they’re smart enough to know that they’re not making a mistake here. I’m fine with it. The API costs are not outrageous. I don’t mind paying per token prices and I don’t mind getting a discounted all-inclusive plan.
Re: Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients
#120I want them to cut off these electron wrappers. If there's no tokens going to these third parties, the more they can keep subsidizing my claude code usage.
But more revenue growth will help them raise more billions to keep subsidizing us longer!