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by dools 32 days ago
Why would a Chinese firm distilling the product use Claude code?
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They offer (extremely) discounted Claude prices but you have to go through their gateway. They subsidize part of that, and they get the low price by reselling unused Max capacity, there's been a few posts on that in the past months. People are apparently getting 90% discounts on their claude use this way, tradeoff is that you have two companies learning from your data, instead of just one. So people use the same tools they use normally, but get it for a lot cheaper
I'd assume cost? Claude Code plans give like $5,000 worth of API usage for $200/mo.
[the comment was misinformed, deleted]
> Claude Code can decrypt summarized reasoning traces sent by the API.

Can you cite specifically what in the linked article or discussion leads you to say that?

They have some secret sauce not available through API maybe?
To write distillation code, for one thing.