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I don't understand what's the threat from a CLI which is useless without AI models and Anthropic could be one of them?

Switching models is too easy and the models are turning into commodities. They want to own your dev environment, which they can ultimately charge more when compared to access to their model.

They want to be the next JetBrains.

They’re afraid their customers will switch model provider in the future, so instead they made them switch now.

I think the focus on OpenCode is distorting the story. If any tool tried to use the CC API instead of the regular API they’d block it.

Claude Code as a product doesn’t use their pay per call API, but they’ve never sold the Claude Code endpoint as a cheaper way to access their API without paying for the normal API

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