Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use

Re:Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for thi... by croes on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @11:29PM (#47069930)

But why does it matter which program you use to consume the tokens?

The sounds like a confession that claude code is somewhat wasteful at token use.

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Re:Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for thi... by airstrike on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @11:38PM (#47069984)

No, it's a confession they have no moat other than trying to hold onto the best model for a given use case.

I find that competitive edge unlikely to last meaningfully in the long term, but this is still a contrarian view.

More recently, people have started to wise up to the view that the value is in the application layer

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Re:Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for thi... by croes on Thursday February 19, 2026 @03:47AM (#47071488)

But if more users use your service you get an advantage. Letting the users chose their tool for that would be a good thing.

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