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by helloplanets 21 days ago
If you use API billing, you can use them from anywhere. But using Claude Code with a Max subscription is massively cheaper for programming. You should never use Claude models for programming through API billing, unless forced. The difference will easily rack up to thousands of dollars for heavy users.
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ramon156 21 days ago
ACP still exists, not sure why no one other than Zed is using it. Its best of both worlds, because you're using their CLI but in another tool
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jshreder 21 days ago
With the coming changes in June, ACP will charge towards the same budget as claude -p and the Claude Code SDK (since it uses the SDK), so ACP no longer solves this. It's (I think) why Zed added "Terminal Threads" [1] to their agent workflow

1: https://zed.dev/blog/terminal-threads

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unshavedyak 20 days ago
The ACP budget change is so bizarre to me. If i was more adventurous with my subscription i'd be interested to see if you could intercept UI/input from CC TUI and render that in a native GUI without it being a TUI. That would be "interactive Claude Code" but you'd get a programmatic interface.

But that would be banned almost instantly i'm sure lol.

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