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Re:Anthropic reportedly preparing for $300B IPO by antiloper on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @11:08AM (#46136145)
> It's kind of funny, you can ask Rufus for stuff like "write a hello world in python for me" and then it will do it and also recommend some python books.

Interesting, I tried it with the chatbot widget on my city government's page, and it worked as well.

I wonder if someone has already made an openrouter-esque service that can connect claude code to this network of chat widgets. There are enough of them to spread your messages out over to cover an entire claude pro subscription easily.

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Re:Anthropic reportedly preparing for $300B IPO by jermaustin1 on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @12:28PM (#46137306)
A childhood internet friend of mine did something similar to that but for sending SMSes for free using the telco websites' built in SMS forms. He even had a website with how much he saved his users, at least until the telcos shut him down.
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Re:Anthropic reportedly preparing for $300B IPO by rm_-rf_slash on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @04:11PM (#46140170)
Phreaking in 2025
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Re:Anthropic reportedly preparing for $300B IPO by jermaustin1 on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @07:55PM (#46142479)
Well Phreaking in 2003-05 (no clue when anymore), so at the same time you could still get free phone calls on pay phones in the library or hotel lobby.
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Re:Anthropic reportedly preparing for $300B IPO by bobbiechen on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @06:28PM (#46141742)
Not sure for Claude Code specifically, but in the general case, yes - GPT4Free and friends.

I think if you run any kind of freely-accessible LLM, it is inevitable that someone is going to try to exploit it for their own profit. It's usually pretty obvious when they find it because your bill explodes.

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