Anthropic doesn’t want you to use a tool that makes it easy to switch to a competitor’s model when you reach a cap. They want to nudge you toward upgrading - Pro -> Max -> Max 20× -> extra usage - rather than switching to Codex. They can afford to make moves like this as long as they stay on top. OpenAI isn’t the good guy here - it’s just an opportunity for them to bite off a bit more of the cake.
Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients
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#32> "For me personally, I have decided I will never be an Anthropic customer, because I refuse to do business with a company that takes its customers for granted." The best pressure on companies comes from viable alternatives, not from boycotts that leave you without tools altogether.
The context is here that Anthropic tried to suppress alternatives. Boycott works here because there are alternatives, like writer addressed.
If "never" means never, you are not leverage, you are just gone.
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#33I just cancelled, citing this as the reason. I’m actually not all that torn up about it. I mostly want to see how Anthropic responds to the community about this issue.
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#34The people defending Anthropic because “muh terms of service” are completely missing the point. These are bad terms. You should not accept these terms and bet the future of your business on proprietary tooling like this. It might be a good deal right now, but they only want to lock you in so that they can screw you later.
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#35I was paying for Max but after trying GLM 4.7 I am a convert. Hardly hit the limit but even if I do it is cheaper to get two accounts from Z.ai than one Max from Anthropic
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#36It's too bad that Anthropic is so hostile to open source. It's a big missed opportunity for them.
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#37They 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…
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
I’ve done that and unless I’m missing something it seems like it would be trivial for me to switch to an alternative.
Re: Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients
#38The people defending Anthropic because “muh terms of service” are completely missing the point. These are bad terms. You should not accept these terms and bet the future of your business on proprietary tooling like this. It might be a good deal right now, but they only want to lock you in so that they can screw you later.
How exactly are they going to lock me in?
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#39A good example of an extremely small but extremely vocal minority doing their best to punish a company for not catering to their explicitly disallowed use case for no reason other than they want it. I'd bet this has 0 negative impact on their business.
illegal?
Re: Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients
#40The people defending Anthropic because “muh terms of service” are completely missing the point. These are bad terms. You should not accept these terms and bet the future of your business on proprietary tooling like this. It might be a good deal right now, but they only want to lock you in so that they can screw you later.
How exactly are they going to lock me in?
By only supporting their own cloud service for remote execution & slowly adding more and more proprietary integration points that are incompatible with other tools.