Anthropic's Method to Losing Goodwill in a Few Easy Steps

Zambyte

Not sure why this was flagged, Anthropic has obviously been burning bridges. I thought this line was funny though: > If you want to autocomplete, like I do, you don’t need Fable, or even Opus; Sonnet works fine. It reads like "if you want to go to the grocery store, you don't need a space shuttle, or even a SR-71 Blackbird; a Cessna works fine."

sscaryterry

The lawsuits will come, paying the piper is inevitable.

bakies

Think I'm about to switch. I can't build the automations i'm trying to with claude code anymore. Since they locked away the non-interactive usage and channels can't be used without interacting with the console on startup. I had a good web interface for running CC in containers in k8s but I think it's time to bail out and build around a codex subscription and pi.dev now. I have local models hooked up to pi dev and that's working well. Had it build itself Channels equivalent so agents can talk to each other and receive webhooks. I bet Anthropic will build these things into their ecosystem eventually, but I want it now and running on my cloud. Edit: I forgot they also don't let me use remote control (which isn't that good anyway) with a oauth key in the env var! So i have to get on a terminal and do the whole login flow for my containerized agents. Massive pain, so lame.

tekacs

It worth noting that – just to add to the confusion – they apparently cancelled the June 15th change just before it was due to go live: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15036540-use-the-clau... https://the-decoder.com/anthropic-backs-off-unpopular-billin... So... maybe we can still use third party harnesses with Claude Code subscriptions... for now? Until they change their mind again?

m_ke

It's looking like Anthropic is realizing that they're about to get squeezed so they need to juice revenue for their IPO before it becomes obvious to everyone else. Open models like GLM 5.2 are getting good enough to handle 90% of tasks, and will eat most of their usage unless they start serving it at cost. And on the 1% work they fearmongered their way into falling under government control, which will limit how much they can commercialize the frontier. Nobody will keep paying their premiums and put up with their BS when they can have similar models at cost of inference in any harness that they want.

iterateoften

Anthropic takes every chance they make not only to behave suspicious and anti-consumer but also announce that they are acting in ways that hurt you while telling you it’s a feature. Fable returning wrong answers if it suspects the topic is sensative is the ultimate icing on the huge cake of lies and gaslighting they’ve been baking the past 6 months.

philipwhiuk

> Each changelog entry has a bug fix in almost every release, which is a sign of reliable and stable software! This is a non-sequitur. Most consumer apps don't even list all the bugfixes.

baron3dl

I do find it challenging to understand what the TOS/AUP allow and not, and what qualifies for subscription and not. If I somehow muster confidence in my interpretation, I continue to doubt that it will be stable over even the short term.

tomaytotomato

I have been using Claude code for a while and have recently migrated to Pi Migrating my skills/agents and config was fairly straightforward. Pi's agent harness seems to be more responsive and quicker than CC (perhaps with the prompt caching and squashing it does behind the scenes) Tempted to do a write-up on migration. I am only using Pi with Github Copilot as I am scared I will get my Claude account banned if I use the Oauth with Pi. pi.dev

jdw64

I agree with everything in this post, but that doesn't mean I want to go back to a life without Claude Code. I've been working alone all this time, and finally it feels like I have someone to talk to

mesmertech

As long as they have the best model they can afford to lose goodwill. People who don't wanna spend too much on LLMs and are trying to optimize whats subsidized even on the Max plans are customers Anthropic is honestly better off without.

Zababa

>Dario and Boris have us convinced that “coding is solved” with their loops. But microwaves didn’t solve cooking. If you want a look at the timeline where the microwave solved cooking, this was an interesting article: https://malmesbury.substack.com/p/my-journey-to-the-microwav... . You can apparently sear meat with a microwave (provided you have the necessary pan).

elzbardico

Complaining about external providers not supporting the subsidized prices Claude charge to its subscribers makes no sense. Of course, Claude Code subscription is a loss leader, it is an offering built to create a market for a new product in a very competitive environment in the hopes of capturing a dominant market position with a fully validated product with a healthy demand from business. Of course they won't give you thousands of dollars of inference for a couple hundred bucks without making sure you're properly tied to their walled garden. Yeah, of course Dario and any other Anthropic spoke person will vastly exaggerate the capabilities of their product and promote vibe coding and now "loop engineering", just like Coca-Cola would love for you to drink gallons of Diet Coke everyday, just like Oracle some twenty ago promoted for Enterprises that they could just use Oracle Databases to serve web applications right from the DB, as this would force you to use more CPUs and Oracle DB is licensed by core. The business model for inference is metered usage, more usage => mode money. Again, the subscription model is just a bump in the road to acquire customers, once you're metered, the more you use, the better for anthropic. Why people get surprised with that stuff?

supermatt

> Your Claude subscription—which is a cheaper version of the Anthropic API—is restricted to use with the Claude Code CLI/Desktop, Claude CoWork, or @Claude in Slack. Thats not true at all. You can use the Agent SDK [1], which uses your subscription [2]. I use it via ACP [3] with custom system prompts and tooling. I have found it very powerful and flexible. It has its own agent loop, of course, so maybe thats the limitation using it with opencode? [1] https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/overview [2] They were talking about giving credits for the SDK usage rather than it using your allowance directly, but that seems to have been put on hold for now. If and when that changes, I will likely jump ship, but I am more than happy with it right now. [3] there isn't an official ACP wrapper - zed have one but its quite limited. its trivial to build one though, or you can just use the SDK directly and wire it into your interface of choice.

haktan

How do you use API keys with Claude subscription? I can't see any keys at claude.ai settings. Only panel I could find was behind another login and it didn't have a subscription option.

Grombobulous

I think this article is contradictory of the reality that Anthropic is picking up B2B marketshare like crazy, recently overtaking OpenAI. I wouldn’t call Fable “enshittification.” Anthropic knows what they have. I’m looking around for the article with the marketshare chart over time and I’ll update my comment if I find it. This is the closest article I could find, though the one I had read earlier had a nice graph and was updated to 2026: https://chatforest.com/guides/anthropic-overtakes-openai-ent... Here’s a decent one: https://menlovc.com/perspective/2025-the-state-of-generative... LLM Market Share: Anthropic Extends Its Lead in the Enterprise

zeppelin_7

Btw, they are also getting aggressive with bans. Furthermore the process to repeal is broken in the UI, and there is no way to get support

internet2000

They're subsidizing their tokens as long as you use their software. That's a fair exchange, I never understood why people took issue with it. If you don't want to get locked in to Claude Code, you can pay more. Just like you can pay more for an unlocked non-carrier subsidized phone. (Which I personally do.)

rvz

> As of writing, Claude Code CLI only has around 9100 open Github issues, with small unresolved issues like it completely freezing for the last 6+ months or a screen flickering issue open for more than a year. But surely those fully autonomous coding loops will solve all those 9,100+ open issues on GitHub? Why haven't they? What happened to Claude's C Compiler [0], or that browser "built from scratch" by Cursor? [1] Why aren't the agents maintaining it if they are supposed to be cheaper than humans? > But why do they have us by the balls? Dario and Boris have us convinced that “coding is solved” with their loops. But microwaves didn’t solve cooking. They have you by the balls if you allow them to, if you continue to listen to their bullshit. Both of them are essentially salesmen at this point. They don't care if they are wrong and will sell Claude to whoever is thinking of planning the next mass layoff. Their definition of "AGI" is different to yours. The correct answer to all of this pricing nonsense that Anthropic and others are doing is local open weight models that you run on your own machine. They know this and powerful local models undercut their entire business model if hosted by others or if a smaller local model matches the performance of larger ones. [1] https://github.com/anthropics/claudes-c-compiler [0] https://github.com/wilsonzlin/fastrender

ngriffiths

One way of reading this is an article about how good Anthropic's product is. "Look at how many serious flaws users have been willing to accept in order to keep using this thing"