[dominotw]

but harness are not a moat. They wouldnt have to subsidize their own harness massively if that was the case. Anyone can write a good harness .

[satvikpendem]

That's not true that anyone can write a good harness because the LLM providers have information like prompts that they can RL train off of that someone writing their own harness would not have. Therefore a good and proprietary harness is a moat.

[dominotw]

that doesnt answer why claude subsidizes their own harness and bans ppl from using subsidized inference on openclaw ect

[satvikpendem]

Yes it does? They want people to be locked into the Claude Code product.

[dominotw]

why do they have "lock" them if its clearly superior to alternatives that merely u se their api.

[satvikpendem]

Because it's a way to make more money in the future. I feel like you're not really getting the difference between what a business does for profit and its technical decisions.

[dominotw]

well internet is rife with theories about why anthropic does it. I dont buy that you have it all figured out.