Comment by doginasuit
10 hours ago
I'm out of the loop on Claude, hasn't it always been possible to use the Anthropic API with a tool like OpenClaw, paying per request? Is this limitation just for using your monthly subscription account?
10 hours ago
I'm out of the loop on Claude, hasn't it always been possible to use the Anthropic API with a tool like OpenClaw, paying per request? Is this limitation just for using your monthly subscription account?
Many people likely objected to the original restriction because it seemed as though Anthropic was trying to impede the development of competing tools.
If I'm paying for compute, why should it matter whether I use Anthropic's harness (e.g., Claude Code) or a 3rd-party harness?
I find it a little bizarre that people have this expectation. You can still pay for compute and use it the way you want by paying for the product you actually want to use. Subscription products like this are not marketed or intended to be used as access to the API, but they also offer access to the API if that's what you want. I'm still not entirely clear why people insist on using their subscription like this, so let me know if I'm missing something.
> I find it a little bizarre that people have this expectation.
Well, enough people complained that Anthropic reversed their stance. Additionally, their primary competitor doesn't have any compute restrictions, which should help clarify why this decision was made.
As someone who has been building ML/AI tools (@ MS & Apple) for almost 25 years, I can say that much of the value of the underlying model comes from the harness. Why shouldn't I be able to use the exact same compute with my own bespoke harness when the compute cost is the same?
The Claude Code team continues to push out half-baked features that literally hamper my ability to use their tools.
If I'm paying $200/month for compute, I should be able to use it however I like.
Isn't their argument that third party harness dont play nice with their GPUs which is a fair argument.
With Claude Code they can predict what the traffic would look like with third party harness they cannot.
If that was the argument, why did they reverse it?
Anthropic is constantly destroying goodwill and now seems to be in panic mode.
Yes, exactly.