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Re:Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscript... by dfabulich on Friday January 09, 2026 @04:39AM (#46551887)
Not really. At a buffet restaurant, if you could take the food out with you, you'd takeaway more food than you can eat at one sitting. OpenCode users and Claud Code™ CLI users use tokens at approximately the same rate.

This is more like an all-you-can-eat restaurant requiring you to eat with their flimsy plastic forks, forbidding you to bring your own utensils.

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Re:Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscript... by whatsupdog on Friday January 09, 2026 @05:44AM (#46552382)
Why is this being downvoted? This is the perfect analogy.
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Re:Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscript... by snackdex on Friday January 09, 2026 @09:55AM (#46554518)
yes with the whole goal to make the utensils better
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Re:Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscript... by samrolken on Friday January 09, 2026 @11:14AM (#46555387)
Claude Code does a lot regarding optimizing context usage, tool output, sub-agent interactions, context compaction, and stuff like that. I don't imagine OpenCode has the same financial incentive to decrease the token cost Anthropic takes on under the subscriptions.
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