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Re: Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions

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For folks not following the drama: Anthropic's $200/month subscription for Claude Code is much cheaper than Anthropic's pay-as-you-go API. In a month of Claude Code, it's easy to use so many LLM tokens that it would have cost you more than $1,000 if you'd paid via the API. Why is Anthropic offering such favorable pricing to subscribers? I dunno. But they really want you to use the Claude Code™ CLI with that subscript…

How is it different from what OpenAI and Codex, and Gemini offer?

Re: Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions

#152

Maybe Anthropic saw Yegge's gas town concept and got scared off?

I believe Gas Town uses Claude Code under the hood, still? Just with some really wild hooks

Oh you mean literally claude code, not some hack like opencode? I guess that makes sense yeah, given the tmux interface.

Re: Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions

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> It is embarrassing to restrict an open source tool that is (IMO) a strictly and very superior piece of software from using your model. > Shutting down the other tool, if that's what's in fact happening, is what is embarrassing. To rephrase it different as I feel my question didn't land. It's clear to me that you think it's embarrassing. And it's clear what you think is embarrassing. I'm trying to understand why you…

Why do you like or dislike Diet Coke? At some point, saying what I think is embarrassing is equivalent to saying why. But, to accept your good faith olive branch, one more go: AI is a space full of grift and real potential. Anthropic's pitch is that the potential is really real. So real, in fact, that it will alter what it means to write software. It's a big claim. But a simple way to validate it would be to see if A…

Thanks, while we in the end may not agree - I do feel I understand your thinking now. Also agreed, we've probably reached the fruitful end of this discussion and this will be my last reply on it. I'll explain my thoughts similarly as you.

To me it seems more akin to someone saying "I'm launching a restaurant. I'll give you a free meal if you come and give me feedback on the dish, the decor, service...". This happens for a bit, then after a while people start coming in taking the free plate and going and eating it at a different restaurant.

To me it seems pretty reasonable to say "If you're taking the free meal you have to eat it here and give feedback".

That said, I do acknowledge you see it very differently and given how you see it I understand why you feel it's embarrassing.

Thanks for the discussion.

Re: Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions

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I used to be less cynical, but I could see them not honoring that, legal or not. The real answer, regardless of how you feel about that conversation, is that Claude Code, not any model, is the product.

I couldn't. Aside from violating laws in various countries and opening them up to lawsuits, it would be extremely bad for their enterprise business if they were caught stealing user data.

If they believe it would get them AGI they would risk it.

Re: Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions

#155

I feel like I'm the only person on this site that doesn't use AI for coding. I guess there's probably a lot of other people that haven't commented on this story who don't use it either. But when I read about how much hype and all that sort of stuff there is in the AI industry, and then I see the amount of posts and commentary and deep technical discussion about how this feature has affected people, I'm not so sure. E…

AI is indeed just hype in a lot of cases, but also has revolutionary value in a other cases. Trying it is the only way you'll be able to differentiate the latter from the former.

Re: Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions

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For anyone coming looking for a solution; I peeked around the OC repository, and a few PRs got merged in. Add this to $HOME/.config/opencode/opencode.json: plugin = ["opencode-anthropic-auth"]

That is, if that's not pulled in to latest OC by the time I post this. Not sure what the release cycle is for builtin plugins like that, but by force specifying it it definitely pulls master which has a fix.

https://opencode.ai/docs/plugins/

Re: Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions

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I feel like I'm the only person on this site that doesn't use AI for coding. I guess there's probably a lot of other people that haven't commented on this story who don't use it either. But when I read about how much hype and all that sort of stuff there is in the AI industry, and then I see the amount of posts and commentary and deep technical discussion about how this feature has affected people, I'm not so sure. E…

I also don’t use AI for coding. I tried, I explored, I learned how it works.

At the end, “maybe-sometimes works” and “sends a copy of all your code to some server in the US” are just incompatible with the kind of software I create.

Regarding the post, I think it’s telling that Anthropic is trying to force people into using their per-usage billing more than the subscription. My take is that the subscription offers a lot as a way of hooking developers into it and is not sustainable for Anthropic if people end up actually maxing their usage.

Given how much money is wasted into the LLM craze, I can imagine there will be more “tightening of the belt” from the AI corps going forward.

For the five coders out there, maybe it’s time to use your tokens to get back control of your codebases … you may have to “meat code” them soon.

Re: Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions

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This is an unusual L for Anthropic. The unfortunate truth is that the engineering in opencode is so far ahead of Claude Code. Obviously, CC is a great tool, but that's more about the magic of the model than the engineering of the CLI. The opencode team[^1][^2] built an entire custom TUI backend that supports a good subset of HTML/CSS and the TypeScript ecosystem (i.e. not tied to Opencode, a generic TUI renderer). Th…

My favorite is running CC in a screen session. There if I type out a prompt and then just start holding down the backspace key to delete a bunch of characters, at some point they key press refresh rate outruns CC’s brains and it just starts acting like it moved the cursor but didn’t delete anything. It is an embarrassing bug, but one that I suspect wouldn’t be found in automated testing.

Talking about embarrassing bugs, Claude chat (both web and iOS apps) lately tend to lose the user message when there is a network error. This happens every day to me lately. It is frustrating to retype a message from memory, first time you are "in the flow" second time it feels like unjust punishment.

With all the Claude Code in the world how come they don't write good enough tests to catch UI bugs? I have come to the point where I preemptively copy the message in clipboard to prevent retyping.

Re: Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions

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> Why is Anthropic offering such favorable pricing to subscribers? I dunno. But they really want you to use the Claude Code™ CLI with that subscription, not the open-source OpenCode CLI. Because they are harvesting all the data they can harvest through CLI to train further models. API access in contrast provides much more limited data

Claude Code only trains on data if you opt in

They switched to opt out, with some extra dark patterns to convert people who already opted out into opting in.

Re: Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions

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Update: Touché. The repo is just plugins and skills, not the meat. In any case, another workaround would be using ACP that’s supported by Zed. Let’s editing tools access the power of CLI agents directly. ——— > Anthropic should have open sourced their Claude Code CLI a year ago https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code It has been open source for a while now. Probably 4-6 months. > Anthropic shouldn't have an all-you-…

You can't use it as an SDK though, unlike codex

You can though?

https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/overview

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