alt Hacker News>is this really a company you want to rely on in your workflow?
Should your company be paying for API access instead?
That's what most companies will do if they need it.
>is this really a company you want to rely on in your workflow?
Should your company be paying for API access instead?
That's what most companies will do if they need it.
opencode is open source.
Anthropic doesn't want anyone training on its model or using its tools outside of its blessed environment. They're willing to lose money on tokens to get you inside their playground, then they'll kill off other tools.
Nobody should cheer for this.
The internet I grew up on would collectively shit on this behavior. What is happening? Why do we not all immediately shun this company's behavior?
Anthropic is going to put extreme pricing pressure on your wages soon. You shouldn't give them an ounce of latitude when they act like an antagonist. You should hope that Anthropic has a ton of competition, not that they get to defend their moat.
US developer wages are going to go down dramatically this year. Don't act like these are the good guys when they try to keep power for themselves.
We're in for pain no matter what. We should at least hope that the magic sauce is as open and widely distributed as possible, otherwise the pain we feel is going to be far, far worse when it's a single company dictating how the market works.