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Re: Claude subscription changes coverage of `claude -p`

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Post by DonsDiscountGas »

puglr wrote: post #26
mkw5053 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Out of curiosity, how are you using it and for what?

Lots and lots of automation, along with long-running multi-instance headless tasks. My usage, which I was on the verge of increasing via a second Max plan, would cost 3 figures per day , rather than per month. I already know this because my initial tooling was prototyped against direct API usage, and that was the cost of my usage patterns. That is not sustainable for me. I understand that Anthropic can't subsidize al…

I'm curious what you're doing so often and repeatedly that can't be done with more normal software. Or maybe write a good school, I've noticed Haiku+good instructions often matches Opus

Re: Claude subscription changes coverage of `claude -p`

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Post by [deleted] »

2001zhaozhao wrote: post #40

I mostly get this change from their side except for the extremely misleading framing. I think in response to this change, I might write an open-source Claude Code GUI wrapper to wrap over the TUI and allow accessing it from a GUI interface. Still interactive (conforms to spirit of Anthropic's new rule), and runs Claude Code via the actual CLI (conforms to letter of Anthropic's rule), without even using the JSON outpu…

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Re: Claude subscription changes coverage of `claude -p`

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Post by solenoid0937 »

gcr wrote: post #30
solenoid0937 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You also get $200 in monthly credits so it's not bad.

Ya but that monthly usage doesn't refill every five hours or every week the way your subscription usage does. Once you're through the $200, you're done until next month.

You can't seriously be expecting between $800 and $28,800 worth of API credits on a $200/mo subscription.

Re: Claude subscription changes coverage of `claude -p`

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Post by skeledrew »

2001zhaozhao wrote: post #40

I mostly get this change from their side except for the extremely misleading framing. I think in response to this change, I might write an open-source Claude Code GUI wrapper to wrap over the TUI and allow accessing it from a GUI interface. Still interactive (conforms to spirit of Anthropic's new rule), and runs Claude Code via the actual CLI (conforms to letter of Anthropic's rule), without even using the JSON outpu…

I'd really love a proper CC GUI myself.

> Tradeoffs [...]

Sounds like you're thinking of scraping the raw terminal output. Consider using a terminal library (pyte[0] comes to mind) for interaction and processing the session files for tool use data, etc.

[0] https://pyte.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Re: Claude subscription changes coverage of `claude -p`

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Post by frabcus »

skeledrew wrote: post #46

These Twitter/X links are killing me, especially when they don't work with XCancel which seems to be happening more frequently. This one just gave me a summary by Grok, and I have no idea now if I'm seeing the same thing that others are commenting on.

Agreed. All I see is a grok summary of a lot of X posts. The original link is not suitable. Anyone have a link to a proper announcement?

Re: Claude subscription changes coverage of `claude -p`

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Post by circuitwork »

puglr wrote: post #26
mkw5053 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Out of curiosity, how are you using it and for what?

Lots and lots of automation, along with long-running multi-instance headless tasks. My usage, which I was on the verge of increasing via a second Max plan, would cost 3 figures per day , rather than per month. I already know this because my initial tooling was prototyped against direct API usage, and that was the cost of my usage patterns. That is not sustainable for me. I understand that Anthropic can't subsidize al…

Same. Lots of little tasks that add up over time. The economics might not be great for Anthropic, but the economics of this change definitely don’t work for me; I could build a home lab and recoup its cost in about three months for the same pricing. “Headless is expensive” is a weird tone to set given so many recent cc releases pushing for greater autonomy (agents view, auto mode).

I’ve been happily single-homed on Anthropic for the last year, but I’ll be spending the next month rewriting projects off it to take advantage of better value elsewhere. I suspect that’s a one way door.

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