That wouldn't solve this problem.

And they do? That's what the API is.

The subscription always seemed clearly advertised for client usage, not general API usage, to me. I don't know why people are surprised after hacking the auth out of the client. (note in clients they can control prompting patterns for caching etc, it can be cheaper)

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esafak 2 hours ago | parent [-]

End users -- people who use harnesses -- have subscriptions so that makes no sense. General API usage is for production.

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usef- 2 hours ago | parent [-]

"Production" what?

The API is for using the model directly with your own tools. It can be in dev, or experiments, or anything.

Subscriptions are for using the apps Claude + code. That's what it always said when you sign up.

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eli an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Production = people who can afford to pay API rates for a coding harness

	▲	usef- an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Saying their prices are too high is an understandable complaint; I'm only arguing against the complaint that people were stopped from hacking the subscriptions. LLMs are a hyper-competitive market at the moment, and we have a wealth of options, so if Anthropic is overpricing their API they'll likely be hurting themselves.

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esafak 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Production code, of course; deployed software. For when you need to make LLM calls.