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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.
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Imagine that Anthropic, or whatever company du jour at some point, starts charging a quarter of your income. Maybe even a third and you have no real alternatives because there is no open source alternative.
What feels like opium right now won’t stay that way by accident. The dealers know exactly how to weave it into your life, how to make it indispensable, whether you'll truly need it or not. And yet I'm a user myself and I know all that.
> to get you inside their playground
This would make more sense if they were someone like Apple, who has a real, integrated walled-garden moat.
I can just use Gemini or OpenAI/Codex instead and get the same or better results as Claude.
> US developer wages are going to go down dramatically this year.
Don't act like developers are the good guys when they try to keep power for themselves.
Gatekeepers disappearing is great for the general public; SMBs and individuals will increasingly get a lot more value at much lower cost than before.
> Anthropic doesn't want anyone training on its model or using its tools outside of its blessed environment.
They have no problem with anyone using this. They just don't want you to get the subsidized cost.
You can use opencode directly via the api. Not through the pro/max plan.
> 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.
Maybe. But the internet in which I grew up, and the movements within open source would say you free as in freedom, not as in beer. They can charge. If anyone wants to move, they can use OpenCode with any model. If enough people leave, the market will dictacte.
I prefer Open Source, yes. If they license it that way, I can't say that I still will because I don't like it. They do give the option.