By only supporting their own cloud service for remote execution & slowly adding more and more proprietary integration points that are incompatible with other tools.
But switching cost to a different CLI coding tool is close to zero… I truly don’t understand the argument that using Claude Code means betting your business on that particular tool. I use Claude Code daily, but if tomorrow they massively raised prices, made the tool worse, or whatever I’d just switch to a competitor and keep working like nothing happened.
To be clear, I’ve seen this sentiment across various comments not just yours, but I just don’t agree with it.
But switching cost to a different CLI coding tool is close to zero… I truly don’t understand the argument that using Claude Code means betting your business on that particular tool. I use Claude Code daily, but if tomorrow they massively raised prices, made the tool worse, or whatever I’d just switch to a competitor and keep working like nothing happened.
To be clear, I’ve seen this sentiment across various comments not just yours, but I just don’t agree with it.