They didn't ban people from using Claude, though. They banned them from their flat-fee subscription and required that you pay per token.
It's still questionable but I don't think it's in the same ballpark as what you describe.
I don't think it's in the same ballpark at all. I checked the `/usage` in my session which uses a Max x5 plan. One day I had used $400 of tokens and 20% of my Fable allocation. Anthropic is effectively giving us more tokens per $ on the monthly plans but it comes at the cost of Anthropic being the prompt-writers and managers of the agents pretty much entirely. I don't think this is a bad deal.
Whether or not it's a bad deal depends on what you're comparing it to. Compared to API pricing, of course a subscription through CC is a good deal. But when OAI offers their super-subsidized plan and allows you to use your own harness which is 75% more token-efficient, then the CC deal starts looking like a bad one in comparison.
It’s really not. Vim isn’t instrumental to Azure usage.
CC isnt instrumental to use Anthropic LLMs. Yet here we are.