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

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who said they are unable to work? This meme is so old and overused.

They laugh about LLMs hallucinating, but themselves hallucinate the facts that don’t exist all the time.

Me thinks the lady doth protest too much

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

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But I doubt you can opt in to them training on that data coming in via OpenCode.

You have already done that when you sign up for an anthropic account

True. You can turn it off though: https://claude.ai/settings/data-privacy-controls

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

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I use it sparingly. I do still have to produce boilerplate and don't have the time/will to engineer a better solution. But any actual logic etc I do myself. Why would I take a chance on an LLM doing it wrong when I know exactly how I want it and am perfectly capable of doing it myself. Also, what the hell am I going to do in the minutes it takes to generate, just sit there and watch it? No thanks.

Because if the LLM does it wrong you simply correct it, you will still get to the end result quicker than DIY. People like this stuff because they’re getting their work done faster, or getting more work done. Personally while waiting I’m either creating plans for other tasks, or I do chores, exercise, watch TV, have a shower, etc.

> Because if the LLM does it wrong you simply correct it, you will still get to the end result quicker than DIY.

No you don't.

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

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Here's how to get a refund on the website (all automated): 1. Profile Icon -> Get Help 2. Send us a Message 3. Click 'Refund' Big corpos only talk money, so it's the best you could do in this situation. If you can't refund, and need to wait till sub runs out after cancelling, go to the OpenCode repo and rename your tools so they start with capital letters. That'll work around it. They just match on lowercase tool nam…

Really useful thanks! I signed up thinking Claude Code was an IDE and really disappointed with it. Their plugin for vscode is complete trash. Way over hyped. Their models are good but I can get that through other ways.

So did you just not read anything at all on the claude code marketing website?

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

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Presumably Claude Code is a loss leader to try to lock you into their ecosystem or at least get you to exclusive associate “AI” with “Claude”. So if it’s not achieving those goals, they’d prefer if you use OpenAI instead.

That's my understanding and that's what I see happening at some places. People got a CC sub, invest on the whole tooling around CC (skills and whatnot) and once they're a few weeks/months in, they'll need a lot of convincing to even try something else. And given how often CC itself changes and they need to keep up with it, that's even worse. It's not just not wanting to get out of your confort zone, it's just trying…

I think most if not all of my CC customizations (skills, MCP config, CLAUDE.md) are quite easily portable to another agent. They are just text files. I may need to adjust one or two Claude specific things like thinking level instruction verbiage, but otherwise I don't see that as very sticky.

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

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> More importantly, Anthropic should have open sourced their Claude Code CLI a year ago. (They can and should just open source it now.) "Should have" for what reason? I would be happy if they open sourced Claude Code, but the reality is that Claude Code is what makes Anthropic so relevant in the programming more, much more than the Claude models themselves. Asking them to give it away for free to their competitors se…

I have the rehydrated version, should I publish it

Rehydrated version of what? And what does that mean?

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

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Anthropic shot themselves in the foot with this decision. It‘s a PR nightmare and at the same time the open source community will always find a way. They just wasted everyone‘s time and likely lost a bunch of users while doing so. Thank you for sharing this!

The open source community won't always find a way. Remote attestation isn't a new concept (it doesn't have to be hardware backed, the concept is general). The industry has enough experience with this by now to know how it goes, and open source projects are always the first to drop out of the race. The time taken to keep up becomes much too high to justify doing on a voluntary basis or giving away the results, so as t…

counterpoint: yt-dlp

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

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Because if the LLM does it wrong you simply correct it, you will still get to the end result quicker than DIY. People like this stuff because they’re getting their work done faster, or getting more work done. Personally while waiting I’m either creating plans for other tasks, or I do chores, exercise, watch TV, have a shower, etc.

> Because if the LLM does it wrong you simply correct it, you will still get to the end result quicker than DIY. No you don't.

No you don’t. Yes I do.

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

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I use Claude Code every day and it works perfectly fine outside of a few bugs (they broke ESC interrupt in 2.1). I just don’t understand the misplaced anger at breaking TOS (even for a good reason) and getting slapped down. Like what did anyone think would happen? We all want these tools and companies to succeed. Anthropic needs to find profit in a few years. It’s in all of our best interests to augment that success,…

> We all want these tools and companies to succeed. Anthropic needs to find profit in a few years. It’s in all of our best interests to augment that success, not bitch because they’re not doing it your way. Considering they're destroying a lot of fields of industry, I'm not sure I want them to succeed. Are we sure they're making the world a better place? Or are they just concentrating wealth, like Google, Meta, Micro…

And that actually might get conservatives on board with universal basic income, which would be a very good thing.

I'm well aware of where wealth is today. There is a massive regressive imbalance.

Historically we've either had a bank systemic failure with depression to curtail it or a civil war. I'm hoping everyone under 40 years old will engage in local, state, and federal politics and reverse this without a depression or war.

Time will tell, and November is closing in on our collective democratic future.

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