Comment by ethbr1
3 days ago
Anthropic thinking they're Reddit ~2023 feels pretty arrogant.
And if they've made a business decision to do this, rolling it out without announcement is even worse.
Did they think no one would notice?
3 days ago
Anthropic thinking they're Reddit ~2023 feels pretty arrogant.
And if they've made a business decision to do this, rolling it out without announcement is even worse.
Did they think no one would notice?
Anthropic has like 4x Reddit’s revenue and 8x the valuation. I don’t understand the arrogance.
Plus I’m the one who compared them to Reddit. They certainly didn’t issue a statement that said “well it worked for Reddit”.
Reddit had a first move and scale advantage by then that Anthropic could only dream of.
Plus its product utility scaled with user count.
To the upthread/sibling conversations about substitutability of LLMs (and therefore pricing power).
Reddit was an also-ran to Digg for half a decade. They literally were not the first mover. Meanwhile, Claude Code very much has a first mover advantage that Anthropic is trying to entrench and capitalize on.
> Plus its product utility scaled with user count.
Which should mean it’s more impactful for Reddit to lose a set of engaged users. The value that Reddit brings to its customers is directly proportional to how many customers maintains. The same is not true for Anthropic.
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Why would they need to make an announcement? Their subscription plan is for their products only. Other companies were hacking it to use it. It's not surprising they would shut it down.
Agreed. People are trying to pretend that they’ve changed the deal, but Anthropic never included “cheap model access for competing products” in the deal. It only ever worked because OpenCode pretended to be Claude Code.
It’s totally valid that people who used OpenCode with Claude would be annoyed, but less valid to act shocked.