Comment by croes

4 days ago

But why does it matter which program you use to consume the tokens?

The sounds like a confession that claude code is somewhat wasteful at token use.

2 comments

croes

No, it's a confession they have no moat other than trying to hold onto the best model for a given use case.

I find that competitive edge unlikely to last meaningfully in the long term, but this is still a contrarian view.

More recently, people have started to wise up to the view that the value is in the application layer

croes 4 days ago

But if more users use your service you get an advantage. Letting the users chose their tool for that would be a good thing.