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Re:Anthropic IPO by CharlieDigital on Thursday November 12, 2026 @08:53AM (#50467097)
I've observed that there are some companies and some folks that are very fanatical about a specific provider. "Only Claude" is very common. "Only GPT" less common, but still see it.

A lot of the non-technical and semi-technical folks are only comfortable using a specific client like the Claude desktop app. A lot of teams wrote skills and eval'd/benchmarked their skills specific to a model family and harness.

The "I can use any model, any harness" or "I only use a meta harness" (Orca, Paseo, Herdr, etc.) crew is relatively small IRL. Most people are still single-session, single platform user mode.

Most orgs have an enterprise contract with a single provider so all of their internal assets are built for the provider. It goes beyond skills, but also the telemetry, enterprise policies, and managed configuration.

Re:Anthropic IPO by segfaultex on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:21AM (#50467688)
For a company though, the idea that a few disgruntled employees will shift massive purchasing decisions is a bit of a stretch.

We have a developer on our team that keeps asking for a claude code enterprise license, we keep telling them "no, it's way too expensive, get used to using the copilot extension/cli".

For consumers, sure, but the bulk of the revenue opportunity is enterprise. Anthropic/OpenAI have a hard row to hoe IMO.

Re:Anthropic IPO by CharlieDigital on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:59AM (#50469527)
Is it just that they want the harness? Or your Copilot config has disabled Anthropic models?

It may still be possible to use the CC harness with the Copilot sub.

Re:Anthropic IPO by felixgallo on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:39AM (#50468040)
As an only-clauder, there's another elephant in the room. Anthropic is by no means perfect, but:

* using OpenAI supports the Altman/Thiel/Musk/Ellison/Karp/Trump billionaire Orwellian worldview and also ads

* using Grok supports a ketamine-addled open fascist sympathizer jizz-spewing 12-year-old-edginess memelord and his similarly broken worldview

* Google's models are pretty good but every single product they have ever had is ultimately either suborned or killed by the advertising division

* local models pretty much only half-exist because Jensen Huang wanted to cheat on his wife; future is unclear

One can argue for harnesses and so forth being lock-in, but the ultimate lock-in is morality and wanting to have a civilization at the end of all of this; I can't recommend either enough

Re:Anthropic IPO by none_to_remain on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:34PM (#50471971)
And Anthropic is perhaps some kind of FTX part II, a cartoon villain attempt at world domination. Dario promises to cure all disease!
Re:Anthropic IPO by rs999gti on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:32AM (#50469069)
> Most orgs have an enterprise contract with a single provider

Yes, either Google Gemini or MS Copilot. Both come as part of their Office suite licenses.