[hirako2000]

There is nothing to solve. It's already there, a VPS, a container platform, just push your script and schedule it.

Of course a provider can offer convenient shortcuts, but at the cost of getting tied into their ecosystem.

Anthropic is clearly battling an existential threat: what happens when our paying users figure out they can get a better and cheaper model elsewhere.

[TeMPOraL]

> what happens when our paying users figure out they can get a better and cheaper model elsewhere.

They solved that with subscriptions. For end-users (and developers using AI for coding), it makes no sense to go for pay-as-you-go API use, as anything interesting will burn more than the monthly subscription worth of $$$ in API costs in few hours to days.

[hirako2000]

Yes but that's anthropic API pricing, some of the highest per token.

Sure subscription is a sort of tie in, but only if users are fooled into investing in workflows bound to anthropic. That's what the company is hooking them to do with this scheduler, banning open agentic framework and the rest.

The moat, if any, will be the tooling. Token is becoming a commodity, they know it.