I know this is somewhat unreasonable but watching "devs" unable to work because "faceless corp 1007" cut their access definitely has a level of schadenfreude to it.
who said they are unable to work? This meme is so old and overused.
Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions
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Re: Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions
#222Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Anyway, this is embarrassing for Anthropic. Why? A few times in this thread I hear people saying "they shouldn't have done this" or something similar but not given any reason why. Listing features you like of another product isn't a reason they shouldn't have done it. It's absolutely not embarrassing, and if anything it's embarrassing they didn't catch and do it sooner.
Because the value proposition that has people pay Anthropic is that it's the best LLM-coding tool around. When you're competing on "we can ban you from using the model we use with the same rate limits we use" everyone knows you have failed to do so. They might or might not currently have the best coding LLM - but they're admitting that whatever moat they thought they were building with claude code is worthless. The b…
I think in fairness to anthropic they are winning in llms right? Since 3.7 they have been better than any other lab.
Re: Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions
#223Woke up and everything is on Fire, I thought opencode had some bug coz it updated itself this morning, but realised its claude who blocked third party clients :(
L for Anthropic indeed, opencode had wayyy better experience than claude code.
Re: Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions
#224I’m curious whether this is related to the recent update. When I opened Claude Code, I was greeted with a “Help improve Claude” message that changes the retention policy from 30 days to 5 long years.
They can’t apply these changes or update parts of the flow for the non-Claude CLI, which explains their latest move.
Re: Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions
#225Earlier quoted context omitted.
More evidence the EU solved the wrong problem. Instead of mandating cookie banners, mandate a single global “fuck off” switch: one-click, automatic opt-out from any feature/setting/telemetry/tracking/training that isn’t strictly required or clearly beneficial to the user as an individual. If it’s mainly there for data collection, ads, attribution, “product improvement”, or monetization, it should be off by default an…
Remember what happened do the DNT flag in the browser? They just ignored until it was gone. If you don’t give them a way to trick and annoy you into accept tracking they ignore completely what you want
remember how all of HN and tech people were saying that DNT is a Micro$oft scam designed to break privacy because it was enabled by default without requiring user action?
to the point that Apache web server developers added a custom rule in the default httpd.conf to strip away incoming DNT headers !!!
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/09/apach...
Re: Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions
#226This 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…
> Anyway, this is embarrassing for Anthropic. I get that opencode shouldn't have been authenticating this way. I'm not saying what they are doing is a rug pull, or immoral. But there's a reason people use this tool instead of your first party one. Maybe let those world class systems designers who created the runtime that powers opencode get their hands on your TUI before nicking something that is an objectively better product.
This is nothing new, they pulled Claude models from the Trae editor over "security concerns." It seems like Anthropic are too pearl-clutching in comparison to other companies, and it makes sense given they started in response to thinking OpenAI was not safety oriented enough.
Re: Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions
#227Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 th…
Ctrl Z usually recovers the missing text, even across page refreshes
Re: Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions
#228For 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…
I guess one issue is that you pay $200/month whether you use it or not. Potentially this could be better for Anthropic. What was not necessarily foreseeable (ok maybe it was) back when that started was that users have invented all kinds of ways to supervise their agents to be as efficient as possible. If they control the client, you can't do that.
Why is supervising one's agents to be as efficient as possible a problem for Anthropic?
Re: Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions
#229Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or call the tool "Read" and it works, according to an issue comment. But actually the solution is checking out how the official client does it and then doing the same steps, though if people start doing this then Anthropic will probably start making it more difficult to monitor and reverse engineer. It might not matter, as some people have a lot of expertice in this, but people might still get the message and move aw…
The endgame is a small background agent that runs Claude Code every once in a while, inspects its traffic, and adjusts on the fly.
Then they'd start pinning certs and hiding keys inside the obfuscated binary to make traffic inspection harder?
And if an open source tool would start to use those keys, their CI could just detect this automatically and change the keys and the obfuscation method. Probably quite doable with LLMs..