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by exitb 87 days ago
> including competing products like OpenCode

I think that’s a bit more nuanced. The actual „product” is not the harness, which is free anyway, but the Claude subscription. In any scenario, that’s what the customer continues to pay for. I understand why Anthropic is doing that, but I feel no need to defend it. Just like I understand why Apple limits your app choices to AppStore, but I’m not going to go out of my way to defend their decision.
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ffsm8 87 days ago
It's way more nuanced, because the subscription is older then Claude Code - and they only started to have a problem with third parties using it after Claude Code. (And not with the release, just some time after the release)
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dns_snek 87 days ago
That makes perfect sense because that's when it became orders of magnitude more expensive to offer the service.
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ffsm8 87 days ago
To me, that argument would only make sense if the subscription wasn't metered... But it is.
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gausswho 87 days ago
Sheriff spits to the ground. One harness. One horse. How we do it' fer now on.
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