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It's a bizarre plan because nobody is 'dependent' on Claude Code; we're begging to use alternatives. It's the model we want!

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You’re not really paying for the model, you’re paying for the tool, the ecosystem, and the application layer around it.

Sonnet 4.6 in CC doesn’t behave the same way as Sonnet 4.6 in Antigravity.

Skills is a generic construct. System prompt is generic as well. Subagents, AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md etc. these are generic, "please care for my instruction" kind of constructs without any real guarantee to close gaps.

Tool is generic (CC vs OpenCode) Ecosystem is already same everywhere.

I don't understand what's the point.

The point is that wrappers matter. Orchestration, tool calls, reasoning loops, system prompts, agentic capabilities. Output is different, quality is different.

This is the moat for AI frontier companies.

And it's their 'ecosystem' they want to sell you.

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