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That wouldn't solve this problem. And they do? That's what the API is. The subscription always seemed clearly advertised for client usage, not general API usa
by usef- 8mo ago
That wouldn't solve this problem.
And they do? That's what the API is.
The subscription always seemed clearly advertised for client usage, not general API usage, to me. I don't know why people are surprised after hacking the auth out of the client. (note in clients they can control prompting patterns for caching etc, it can be cheaper)
- esafak 8mo agoEnd users -- people who use harnesses -- have subscriptions so that makes no sense. General API usage is for production.
- usef- 8mo ago"Production" what? The API is for using the model directly with your own tools. It can be in dev, or experiments, or anything. Subscriptions are for using the apps Claude + code. That's what it always said when you sign up.
- esafak 8mo agoProduction code, of course; deployed software. For when you need to make LLM calls.
- eli 8mo agoProduction = people who can afford to pay API rates for a coding harness
- usef- 8mo agoSaying their prices are too high is an understandable complaint; I'm only arguing against the complaint that people were stopped from hacking the subscriptions. LLMs are a hyper-competitive market at the moment, and we have a wealth of options, so if Anthropic is overpricing their API they'll likely be hurting themselves.