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by throwaway77834 hours ago |
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upvoteby alexfortin2 hours ago|
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I'm curious, what are the reasons to use Claude Code anymore when there are so many other (allegedly better) OpenSource harnesses out there?

Personally I've been using https://pi.dev for long and never looked back.

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upvoteby pigeons1 hours ago|
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Because you basically get a discount to use claude code via subscription when using an anthropic model, compared to what you pay via api billing with another harness
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upvoteby alexfortin1 hours ago|
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Understood.

Personally that's actually another good reason to boycott Anthropic: beside the fact I perceive their models as (at best) marginally better than the ones I'm used to (Z.ai glm-5.3-flash, DeepSeek Flash v4.1), they even force me to use their bloated harness. They are not even open weights and iirc they're even encrypting chain of thoughts now? Litterally, from my perspective there seems to be no reason whatsoever to choose any of the leading US providers, they're not even competing on price.

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upvoteby SturgeonsLaw37 minutes ago|
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I too am using GLM-5.3-flash in Pi and I've yet to encounter a scenario it couldn't handle. And the pricing is just incredible, I've handed it a previously unseen codebase, asked it to analyse it and build a new feature, came back after it had done so and the API cost was a fraction of a cent. It's $0.5/1M output tokens on OpenRouter.

If I really need to, I can escalate a task to Opus at $25/1M, and the results are good, but not 5000% as good.

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upvoteby afthonos4 hours ago|
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You are incorrectly cynical. They are telling you things are bad, and because you refuse to countenance they could be worse, you assume they must be better to comply with your mandate to disbelieve.

A true cynic looks at the statements by the AI labs, assumes things are worse because the labs want to seem better than they truly are. And it takes a special kind of mass delusion to drive a sane person to think “AI is completely under our control” is worse than “AI could kill everyone.”

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upvoteby chrisco2553 hours ago|
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You're asserting correctness with no facts to offer of your own, just speculation and your own biased assumptions.

What if consolidating AI into a highly regulated cartel, with no chance of upstart competition ruining their position, is the scenario that leads to the worst possible outcome?

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upvoteby afthonos3 hours ago|
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Worse than extinction?
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upvoteby icantevenhold3 hours ago|
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There are worse fates than extinction, for example living forever, for I have no mouth and I must scream
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upvoteby solenoid09372 hours ago|
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I dunno, being a Culture Mind sounds pretty damn good. Or even just a death-optional citizen in the Culture.
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upvoteby afthonos1 hours ago|
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Agreed. Ellison’s path to that future went through AI.
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upvoteby throwaway77833 hours ago|
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The cynicism is about motivations and not that they are inherently not bad. Perhaps they are as bad as they claim. Or perhaps they're worse. All we have a couple of run of the mill breach examples and some people inside the talking about how dangerous it is. Yes, they are far more qualified than I am (or most people here), and perhaps there is a grain of truth. It is the motivation - and it is always money with corporations.
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upvoteby afthonos1 hours ago|
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It is always money — but it isn’t always only money. They are not asking for anything that will prevent them from making money in the future, but they are asking for help stopping the runaway train they’re on. These are compatible requests.
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upvoteby throwaway77831 hours ago|
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All the whistleblowers have said the alignment projects are underfunded. Surely they don't need external help to fund that? Could've done years ago?
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upvoteby solenoid09372 hours ago|
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"Don't you understand?! It's all a marketing exercise!" I yell as grey goo consumes me and my family.
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