Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw

Re:Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscri... by entropoem on Friday April 03, 2026 @08:23PM (#47634151)

Anthropic and OpenAI are the clearest examples of why, in an organization of specialists, the experts themselves should not be the CEO or the final decision-maker once the company’s challenges extend beyond just the product.

Just look at how Sam Altman has led OpenAI step by step to dominate—and choke out—Anthropic, a company founded by the group of engineers who were once part of the turmoil at OpenAI.

Anthorpic's product thinking is terrible even though it is technically very good.

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Re:Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscri... by danpalmer on Friday April 03, 2026 @08:31PM (#47634212)

An interesting... weird(?), take. I see Anthropic as being mostly a much more compelling option. They've avoided most negative backlash, they have a much higher percentage of paying users, plenty of enterprise contracts, etc. They avoided money pits like Sora.

OpenAI seems to mostly be chasing the consumer market, but not doing great at it.

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Re:Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscri... by dboreham on Friday April 03, 2026 @08:58PM (#47634408)

I'm a very happy Anthropic customer. They could charge me 3X the current rate and it'd still be a great deal.

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Re:Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscri... by 0xbadcafebee on Saturday April 04, 2026 @10:53AM (#47639572)

They're more compelling to the HN echo chamber. I have never heard a normal person say "I was asking Claude the other day...", but they do use ChatGPT.

Based on the limited public information out there, the AI chat tools with the most users are ChatGPT, Meta, Gemini, Alibaba, Baidu, Copilot, and Grok. Anthropic is nowhere near the top.

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