These are two different products. It's like SpaceX launching satellites for competitive satellite internet services. They didn't care that they were providing launch capabilities for a competitor and neither should Anthropic. What if Apple stopped allowing you to use an iPhone if you worked at Google?
Anthropic co-founder on cutting access to Windsurf
31–40 of 117 posts
Re: Anthropic co-founder on cutting access to Windsurf
#32Re: Anthropic co-founder on cutting access to Windsurf
#33This seems pretty reasonable to me. I don't really understand why Windsurf, owned by OpenAI (allegedly), should expect to have API access to their main competitor's API. People can still bring their own key and use whatever models they want in that way.
This seems odd to me, I don't expect bakery to reject selling me a bread this morning, because I started working in another bakery nearby.
Re: Anthropic co-founder on cutting access to Windsurf
#34Re: Anthropic co-founder on cutting access to Windsurf
#35Wow excited for when Anthropic buys Cursor in a couple months and I get locked out of using OpenAI models with it. This is depressing. I just want stuff to work.
Re: Anthropic co-founder on cutting access to Windsurf
#36This should be a clear signal to the community that anthropic can’t be trusted. OpenAI can’t either, TBD on google
Re: Anthropic co-founder on cutting access to Windsurf
#37The Windsurf team repeatedly stated that they're running at a loss so all this seems to have achieved is giving OpenAI an excuse to cut their 3rd party costs and drive more Windsurf users towards their own models.
Re: Anthropic co-founder on cutting access to Windsurf
#38Probably most here are not old enough to remember, but there was a time when Google had all sorts of data access APIs and encouraged developers to create applications that used said APIs. And then they disabled them all.
How is that relevant?
Re: Anthropic co-founder on cutting access to Windsurf
#39This should be a clear signal to the community that anthropic can’t be trusted. OpenAI can’t either, TBD on google
TBD on whether Google can be trusted? That ship sailed long ago.
I certainly don’t trust them to not kill whole products on demand
Re: Anthropic co-founder on cutting access to Windsurf
#40This feels like a cheap trick to drive users towards Claude Code. It's likely no coincidence that this happened at the same time they announced subscription access to Claude Code. The Windsurf team repeatedly stated that they're running at a loss so all this seems to have achieved is giving OpenAI an excuse to cut their 3rd party costs and drive more Windsurf users towards their own models.