It's imperative to understand that Anthropic and OpenAI view their customers as subhuman drug addicts (read: *users*).

From this perspective, the people who use these tools are beneath the people who design them. From this perspective, the rightful state of the world is for the superior members of the in-group to control the experience of the inferior members of the out-group.

By using these tools, you willingly accept the position of the inferior/the sub-human/the addict.

They extensively use Claude to develop Claude. It's absurd to suggest they don't use what they push on their users. It's one of the most common criticisms of Claude Code that it's too vibe coded and buggy due to that.