alt Hacker NewsI used Claude Code for a month because my boss gifted me a sub and wanted me to try it.
I used that month to complete a work project and then beef up my personal harness so I'd never have to deal with Anthropic (and these sorts of shenanigans) again.
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How do people build something like a personal harness? Are there tools for that or is it done from scratch?
The issue is that using Claude Code is an easy compromise for most to make, when you get to use the models 10x cheaper than through API pricing with a custom harness.
The cheap tokens are the product.
What models are you using? Aren’t you still dealing with some provider even if you are not using their binary
Given the Anthropic shenanigans, do you trust the personal harness code it wrote for you?
Yes, this is actually "funny" that Anthropic feels the need to build such intrusive features into Claude Code, when anybody can build a (basic) Claude Code alternative. And the Chinese labs are certainly not "anybody". One may wonder what Anthropic really tries to achieve aside from awful publicity.