Comment by kapelan

This is the second time this month I've been frustrated with Anthropic's decisions. First, Claude Code after the 2.1.9 update completely broke - it lost context between messages and ignored previous prompts. The quality degraded overnight with no warning. So I migrated to Open Code while still using Claude as the underlying model since I was comfortable with it. Now they're blocking authorization for third-party clients? Last I checked, my subscription is for Claude, not exclusively for Claude Code. I really dislike these kinds of moves. Anthropic seems aware they have goodwill in the developer community largely due to good PR and a solid model - though Opus 4.1 was bad enough that I cancelled my subscription for the first time. If they want to play the corporate lock-in game, that's their choice. But I'm not interested. I just want a stable solution that's properly tested before release - not beta-tested on paying customers. Open Code works fine as a CLI. Claude Code is heading in the wrong direction with these restrictions. And honestly, Claude doesn't differentiate itself enough from competitors anymore to justify not switching to Codex or Gemini. For now, I'm done with Claude.