alt Hacker NewsClaude needs to drop the required login to use their platform. I get it if you want to use their premium models, but just yesterday I tried to use their LLM. It prompted me a couple of times to log in and I dropped off immediately and went back to ChatGPT. Just a dumb decision in my eyes
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I was curious and using a watch I found it took me 25 seconds to sign up and setup an account. You probably spent more time trying to work around this and typing this comment than it would have taken to setup your account.
You are using a free service, and think the provider cannot ask for a simple login.
Anonymity is fine to ask for, but you are not paying for something and you are getting value...
I tried your approach with a contractor working on my kitchen - ask her if she will do all the work for free - nope. so dumb
Seems like a good decision if they are trying to avoid consumers and focus on professional users who are more likely to create an account and pay. Especially if they are constrained on compute.