They want you feel like you’re missing out. They want you to switch. Being boring is far more productive. Pin your versions. Stick to stable releases and avoid the nightlies.
Significant noise created from 4.6 to 4.7 Opus transition has caused some to interpret this as signal. Excluding certain genuine and real bugs, the noise about perceived quality falling dramatically was noise. Influencers doing influencing turned it into “signal”. The reality was that if you had strong planning and spec driven development it ranged from manageable to non-existent.
The vast majority of the people I know and work with have not switched off CC or their Max sub.
But I may not have paid enough to get the full real experience with codex
At work it's CC or sometime codex, personally don't see much difference at all and most normies will notice none. The cultists have their opinions.
What bleeding? Anthropic wants as much of that "bleeding" as possible. The interaction data gathered from genuine human CC subscription usage of their models goes directly into their RL training, it's invaluable and they are more than happy to lose money on the inference to get it. That data is what xAI was recently willing to pay $10b to cursor to get.
They want you to use Claude Code. They hate other UI surfaces like OpenCode etc purely because they lose control over that data, so they're subsidizing the inference without getting what they actually want, the data (they still get some of it of course, but it's much less ergonomic for them. Those tools often abstract away the subagent calls, for example). OpenCode can collect that data themselves, so by allowing subscription there, Anthropic sees itself as subsidizing another org getting that data. Hard no.
And tools like OpenClaw are useless because they're mechanical and don't represent actual users interacting with the service - again, subsidizing but not getting the reward.
It's all very simple once you understand their motivations.
Ha!
As the product they deliver is greenfield and in the newest of domain spaces, there is a serious halo-effect to consider.
On a side note, at a company I know the devs are split between
Stick to Copilot inside visual studio
- suspiciously cheap Opus quotas there
+ they read their code
pi coding agent
+ control all the things my way
- each their own way
Claude Code
+ it's magic
- you mean it did that to my prompt!
Btw the guy in charge of that stuff for Anthropic is the same guy who said GPT 2 was too dangerous to release, Jack Clark. LMAO. That model could barely string a sentence together.
You are deep in an information bubble, mostly driven by hype-train influencers with magpie attention spans.