Comment by realharo
2 days ago
The endgame is a small background agent that runs Claude Code every once in a while, inspects its traffic, and adjusts on the fly.
2 days ago
The endgame is a small background agent that runs Claude Code every once in a while, inspects its traffic, and adjusts on the fly.
Then they'd start pinning certs and hiding keys inside the obfuscated binary to make traffic inspection harder?
And if an open source tool would start to use those keys, their CI could just detect this automatically and change the keys and the obfuscation method. Probably quite doable with LLMs..
Without breaking legitimate clients?
At some point it becomes easier to just reevaluate the business model. Or just make a superior product.
Aren't Anthropic in control of all the legitimate clients? They can download a new version, possibly automatically.
I believe the key issue here is that the product they're selling is all-you-can-eat API buffet for $200/month. The way they manage this is that they also sell the client for this, so they can more easily predict how much this is actually going to consume tokens (i.e. they can just put their new version of Claude Code to CI with some example scenarios and see it doesn't blow out their computing quota). If some third party client is also using the same subscription, it makes it much more difficult to make the deal affordable for them.
As I understand it, using the per-token API works just fine and I assume the reason people don't want to use it because it ends up costing more.