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

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like the other commenter said. you need to learn to use new tools. and your take clearly indicates you haven't.

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

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couldn't opencode just switch to agent sdk?

I'm not 100% sure but I think OpenCode wants to control the harness and persistence, tool call flows etc. If they just used the Claude SDK then it would diverge architecturally from all the other providers, persist jsonl to ~/.claude, etc.

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

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I feel like I'm the only person on this site that doesn't use AI for coding. I guess there's probably a lot of other people that haven't commented on this story who don't use it either. But when I read about how much hype and all that sort of stuff there is in the AI industry, and then I see the amount of posts and commentary and deep technical discussion about how this feature has affected people, I'm not so sure. E…

    I don't use AI for coding
It's a very powerful tool now, and it's going to continue to get more powerful and more popular.

The world turns around us. you can choose not to turn with it, but it turns all the same.

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

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For 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 would say everything about your comment is ridiculous, lacking basic understanding of product strategy. Irritates me that HN crowd upvotes this at the top.

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

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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

yt-dlp is easily detected by Google and constantly getting itself blocked. It's allowed to the extent that they don't care about low level scraping. Look at their known issues:

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/3766

YouTube blocks are listed in a section titled "Intractable issues".

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

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You don’t think Claude Code has generated good will for Anthropic? People just liking a brand is powerful.

I don't think this move is generating good will.

A tiny minority being inconvenienced because they are breaking terms of use is fine for them vs pricing claude subscriptions at the true cost.

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

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When you have a "loss leader" whose sole purpose is to build up market share (e.g. put competitors out of business) that's called predatory pricing.

Every loss leader's purpose is to build up market share.

Perhaps in the generic sense that most things a business does are to build up market share that's true. But Costco isn't selling hot dogs for $1.50 in an effort to capture a large share of the hot dog market.

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

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For 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…

Sorry, ClaudeCode is $200/mo? I’m not using it now, but was thinking about giving it a try. The website shows $200/year for Pro: “$17 Per month with annual subscription discount ($200 billed up front). $20 if billed monthly.” https://claude.com/pricing What are you referring to that’s 10x that price? (Conversely, I’m wondering why Pro costs 1/10 the value of whatever you’re referring to?!?)

Theres a heavier max plan

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

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It’s the standard enshittification lifecycle: subsidize usage to get adoption, then lock down the API to force users into a controlled environment where you can squeeze them. Like Reddit, they realized they can't show ads (or control the user journey) if everyone is using a third-party client. The $200 subscription isn't a pricing tier. It's a customer acquisition cost for their proprietary platform. Third-party clie…

Rug pull for mo' money, mo' money, mo' money.

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