> Yes, just get hundreds of billions of dollars in investments to build a leading product, and then use your massive legal team to force the usage of your highly subsidised and marketed subscription plan through your vibe coded software.
replyWhat? Your comment makes absolutely zero sense. Legal team forces people to use Claude Code?
Claude Code is the only coding harness you're allowed to use with fixed-price subscriptions as opposed to PAYGO API access. There's also rumors that the subscriptions are heavily subsidized compared to API, or at least cross-subsidized to the effect that the heaviest users of Claude Code (controlling for subscription level) end up paying vastly lower unit prices for their token use. These restrictions are enforced legally.
replyI know this isn't your point, but Anthropic has raised about $70 billion, not "hundreds of billions".
replyAnd they don't need a massive legal team to declare that you can't use their software subscription with other people's software.