alt Hacker NewsBecause the value proposition that has people pay Anthropic is that it's the best LLM-coding tool around. When you're competing on "we can ban you from using the model we use with the same rate limits we use" everyone knows you have failed to do so.
They might or might not currently have the best coding LLM - but they're admitting that whatever moat they thought they were building with claude code is worthless. The best LLM meanwhile seems to change every few months.
They're clearly within their rights to do this, but it's also clearly embarrassing and calls into question the future of their business.
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I think in fairness to anthropic they are winning in llms right? Since 3.7 they have been better than any other lab.
> Because the value proposition that has people pay Anthropic is that it's the best LLM-coding tool around.
Why not just use a local LLM instead? That way you don't have to pay anyone.
Is it that it's the best coding tool or the best model? I still get the best (most accurate) results out of anthropic models (but not out of CC).