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Re:Claude Code Is Being Dumbed Down by cyanydeez on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @07:39PM (#46983377)
Yeah, I know it's new tech and the pipeline for the magic is a bunchof shims ontop of a non-deterministic models; but the MBAs are going to swoop in eventually and segmenting the users into tiers of price discrimnation is in the pike regardless of how earnest the current PMs are.
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Re:Claude Code Is Being Dumbed Down by 1f60c on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @08:03PM (#46983577)
Hmm, honestly I'm not so sure. Many devs seem extremely price-sensitive and the switching cost is... zero.

If Anthropic do something you don't like, you just set a few environment variables and suddenly you're using the Claude Code harness with a local model, or one of thousands available through OpenRouter. And then there is also OpenCode. I haven't tried this, but I'm not worried.

^ https://github.com/ruvnet/claude-flow/wiki/Using-Claude-Code...

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Re:Claude Code Is Being Dumbed Down by gchamonlive on Thursday February 12, 2026 @12:04AM (#46985077)
Unless your employer made a deal and suddenly you are forced to use one provider for the foreseeable future.
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