Great article, recommend reading all of it.

> Why bother, you ask? Opus may be a great model, but Claude Code to this day leaks raw JSONL from sub-agent outputs, wasting hundreds of thousands of tokens. I get to say, “fuck it, subagents output structured data now”.

This is why I find the banning of using Claude subscriptions in other harnesses is so heinous. Their harness that they're forcing onto everyone has tons of big issues including wasting massive numbers of tokens. Very much in line with intentionally refusing to adhere to standards in the most IE6 way possible.

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techpression 8 hours ago | parent [-]

I mean they want to make money right? CC is a cool tool, but obviously they want you to use the api eventually if you’re even remotely a power user, 200/month for all you can eat tokens (well, until some arbitrary limit of the day kicks in) just doesn’t make sense when compared to api prices. In other words, CC should be seen as a software subscription.

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deaux 8 hours ago | parent [-]

The token limit is the same whether used in CC or in other harnesses.

	▲	techpression 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Sure, but then Anthropic loses the possibility to upsell, show ads, telemetry, brag about number of users and how long they use it etc etc. Not necessarily what’s in there today, but what can be in there tomorrow. They also get the ability to much better fine tune backoffs etc from a purely technical side of things.