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Comment by jameshart

5 days ago

Codex and Claude should not be seen as ‘the standard’

They are vendor offerings but you don’t have to take them.

You kinda do have to take Claude if you want to take advantage of their subscription pricing, sadly.

  • this is no longer the case. If your harness handles login through the Agents SDK, you can use your sub now. That's why your Claude sub can be used in Amp and T3 Code for free now, but not in Pi (at least not without workarounds)

    • Does it need to be proxied through the `claude` tool still? Or is it authenticating directly? From what I can see (for Amp at least), it's all being proxied through a `claude` binary. Perhaps I'm seeing outdated info from the announcement though?

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  • Anthropic and OpenAI models are available via a number of different channels eg AWS, GitHub copilot, Google Cloud… using those kinds of platforms behind a vendor-neutral tool gives you the ability to swap models out while maintaining the same workflow.

Seems foolish to use a single-vendor harness to be honest. With how fast things change, and the price/performance you get from open weight models, building a workflow around a single llm provider seems super limiting.