Keep in mind this is hearsay, since we are reading something through a non-official channel, it's maybe not right to call it "flip-flopping"?

Given the lack of clear communication and the fact that their primary competitor openly supports the use of bespoke harnesses, I highly doubt this is an incorrect announcement.

Anthropic is destroying goodwill that is hard-won in this space. At the end of the day, people just need to do their work in a way that makes sense for them. In my case (someone who has been building ML/AI tools for 25 years @ MS & Apple), I have much better results using my bespoke harness. If I'm paying $200/month for compute, I should be able to use it in a way that works for me. Given the push back, I'm not alone.

Nobody said anything about the correctness of the announcement.

> Keep in mind this is hearsay

How, exactly, is that not saying something about the announcement?

It's saying something about the announcement, it's not saying something about the correctness of the announcement.

I used the word hearsay to imply that flip-flopping should only be a judgement on the comms of the entity accused of flip-flopping, not information living on some third party source.

And I was referring to the all of the historical flip-flopping. This new flipping is just proving the point.

Of course, you're simply being pedantic. Everyone knows why they are making this change (which is more important than your silly take on what constitutes flip-flopping).

The point: Anthropic is losing subscribers because it has no idea what it actually wants to be.

> The poor communication and flip-flopping are what concern me.

There's no poor communication. The communication is excellently crafted to deceive users and facilitate flipflopping.