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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

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Post by margalabargala »

nerdjon wrote: post #52
Palmik wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To me it's very easy to understand why people would be upset and post about it online. 1. The company did something the customers did not like. 2. The company's reputation has value. 3. Therefore highlighting the unpopular move online, and throwing shade at the company so to speak, is (alongside with "speaking with your wallet") one of the few levers customers have to push companies to do what they want them to do.

Sure, it is perfectly valid to complain all you want. But it is also important to remember the context here. I could write an article and complain about Taco Bell not selling burgers and that is perfectly within my right but that is something they are clearly not interested in doing. So me saying I am not going to give them money until they start selling burgers is a meaningless too them. Everything I have seen about…

> So me saying I am not going to give them money until they start selling burgers is a meaningless too them.

Sure, but that's because you're you. No offense, but you don't have a following that people use to decide what fast food to eat. You don't have posts about how Taco Bell should serve burgers, frequently topping one of the main internet forums for people interested in fast food.

HN front page articles do matter. They get huge numbers of eyeballs. They help shape the opinions of developers. If lots of people write articles like this one, and it front pages again and again, Anthropic will be at serious risk of losing their mindshare advantage.

Of course, that may not happen. But people are aware it could.

Re: Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients

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Post by falloutx »

lemontheme wrote: post #72

Before this drama started, OpenCode was just another item on a long list of tools I've been meaning to test. I was 100% content with CC (still am, mostly). But it was nice to know that there were alternatives, and that I could try them, maybe even switch to them, without having to base my decision on token pricing. The idea of there being escape hatch made me less concerned about vendor lock-in and encouraged me to a…

Claude already played their card, from threatening that 90% of the code will be written by Ai then cutting off their most enthusiastic followers. Opencode and others haven't threatened the industry and generally have better standing with most devs. I do not see how Claude can ever be profitable at this point, they don't have any stickyness and they actively propose cutting their own market.

Re: Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients

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Post by rCube22 »

You are just taking advantage of their CC subscription business model, which they are subsidizing because you are using CC. Why should they do this when you don't use their product?

Also You can still use OpenCode with API access...so no they didn't lock anything down. Basically the people just don't want to pay what is fair and is whining about it.

Re: Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients

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Post by taytus »

cat-whisperer wrote: post #103

I don't think I agree with this claim. Also, they didn't cut-off anyone. You can still use their API as you wish. It's out there for anyone who wants it. They simply stopped people from abusing a accessibility feature that they created for their own product.

>they didn't cut-off anyone

They did banned a lot people. Later, they "unbanned" them, but your comment isn't truthful.

Re: Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients

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Post by arjie »

As a Claude Code user (on the Max $200 plan), I think this is fine. Already I frequently receive:

    API Error: 529 {"type":"error","error":{"type":"overloaded_error","message":"Overloade    d"},"request_id":"req_011CX42ZX2u
If they want to prioritize direct Anthropic users like me, that's fine. Availability is a feature to me.

Re: Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients

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Post by falloutx »

alvsilvao wrote: post #12

Just checked https://opencode.ai/ . It looks like they need to update their FAQ: Q: Do I need extra AI subscriptions to use OpenCode? A: Not necessarily, OpenCode comes with a set of free models that you can use without creating an account. Aside from these, you can use any of the popular coding models by creating a Zen account. While we encourage users to use Zen, OpenCode also works with all popular providers such…

It still works with Claude Opus, just need to get a key from platform.claude.ai

Re: Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients

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Post by johnpaulkiser »

Terretta wrote: post #51
jrsj wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It might make sense from Anthropics perspective but as a user of these tools I think it would be a huge mistake to build your workflow around Claude Code when they are pushing vendor lock in this aggressively. Making this mistake could end up being the AI equivalent of choosing Oracle over Postgres

As a user of Claude Code via API (the expensive way), Anthrophic's "huge mistake" is capping monthly spend (billed in advance and pay as you go some $500 - $1500 at a time, by credit card) at just $5,000 a month. It's a supposedly professional tool with a value proposition that requires being in your work flow. Are you going to keep using a power drill on your construction site that bricks itself the last week or two…

This sounds like a stop loss? Are they losing money per token even through the api?

Re: Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients

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Post by themafia »

ojosilva wrote: post #28

They 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…

> Anthropic's mistake is that they are incapable of monetizing their great models in the chat market

The types of people who would use this tool are precisely the types of people who don't pay for licenses or tools. They're in a race to the bottom and they don't even know it.

> and that's a very thin layer

I don't think Anthropic understands the market they just made massive investments in.

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