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New comment by jrsj in "Anthropic acquires Stainless"

jrsj — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:31:40 +0000

This is true of course and I don’t think these heavily subsidized plans will be around forever, but at the same time OpenAI is just less compute constrained than Anthropic right now as well so they’re in a stronger position to be able to offer these subsidies.

GPT models are also generally more token efficient right now and that helps too — you can go a lot further on a $20 subscription with Codex than Claude Code as a result of this.

Ultimately I think many day to day tasks just need to shift away from the latest frontier models towards models that are faster, cheaper, and still perform well enough & you can phase out subsidies while keeping total cost reasonable.

New comment by jrsj in "Anthropic acquires Stainless"

jrsj — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:19:34 +0000

It’s gotten better within the last month or so but historically there’s been an excessive amount of anti-OAI and pro-Anthropic activity on this site as well and I’ve seen numerous posts get downvoted and almost instantly flagged for calling this out more politely than you have here.

So at least anecdotally I really don’t think it’s fair to portray this as OAI doing some sort of social media psyop as if others aren’t engaged in similar behavior.

It’s also very possible that this user just has opinions and tends to think OAI is more developer friendly / that Anthropic is hostile to developers (which is common sentiment I’ve seen from many real people who are definitely not paid OAI shills or something)

New comment by jrsj in "Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation"

jrsj — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:00:57 +0000

Actually partly yes, my grandmother was. That isn’t the point though, I just have an expectation that people should be treated fairly and not discriminated against regardless of their background and frankly many people who come here particularly from South Asia do not hold those values at all, and I’ve seen this negatively impact Americans from many different ethnic backgrounds.

New comment by jrsj in "The Vercel plugin on Claude Code wants to read your prompts"

jrsj — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:35:01 +0000

Do you have anything substantive to add to this?

New comment by jrsj in "The Vercel plugin on Claude Code wants to read your prompts"

jrsj — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:29:29 +0000

If you’re letting Claude code just handle secrets like this you’re already fucked from a security standpoint so I don’t really see the big deal here

Today it was the Vercel plugin but if you’re letting an LLM agent with access to bash and the internet read truly sensitive information then you’re already compromised

New comment by jrsj in "The Vercel plugin on Claude Code wants to read your prompts"

jrsj — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:25:17 +0000

Israel has a disproportionately large amount of tech companies for its size and he took one photo with their leader.

I have no idea why everyone on the internet wants to endlessly seethe about this & personally attack Guillermo for it as if he’s endorsed their foreign policy or something

New comment by jrsj in "Cursor 3"

jrsj — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:27:09 +0000

I would switch to Cursor 3 in a heartbeat if it supported Claude Agent SDK (w/ Claude Max subscription usage) and/or Codex the way that similar tools like Conductor do

And I would happily pay a seat based subscription fee or usage fees for cloud agents etc on top of this

Unfortunately very locked into these heavily subsidized subscription plans right now but I think from a product design and vision standpoint you guys are doing the best work in this space right now

New comment by jrsj in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

jrsj — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:27:54 +0000

If things continue to get worse I really worry how many people might give up on life entirely. A lot of people in this industry don’t have a whole lot else going on for them, myself included.

I grinded my 20s away trying to have a successful career and if that just gets pulled out from under me I’ve got absolutely nothing.

New comment by jrsj in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

jrsj — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:20:05 +0000

These are kind of unrelated issues. You’re right that it used to be companies just didn’t want to be involved in war at all, & generally speaking that isn’t going to cause issues.

The core of the issue here is having a private company which is trying to dictate terms of use to the military, which is not really something that has been done before afaik

Originally this contract was signed with these terms included, and it wasn’t until Anthropic started investigating how its tech was used by Palantir in the Maduro operation that this became an issue.

On a surface level it seems like Anthropic is doing the right thing here but this is really at the root of this & the outcome of the case (and whether or not Anthropic is a legitimate supply chain risk) depends entirely on the details of those conversations they had with Palantir.

New comment by jrsj in "Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk"

jrsj — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:40:38 +0000

They would never do this because the entire point of the company is to try and control what AI is allowed to do, who is allowed to use it, and what they’re allowed to do with it. The overarching philosophy of Anthropic is explicitly opposed to open models. If it were up to them it would be illegal to inference them in the U.S.

Conductor removing support for Claude subscription authentication

jrsj — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:17:39 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/charlieholtz/status/2024585923619590497

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47079531

Points: 1

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New comment by jrsj in "I’m joining OpenAI"

jrsj — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 05:06:59 +0000

It’s hard to say exactly what prompted the decision but they banned people paying $200/mo without warning & without any reasonable appeal system in place. It’s a Google form that is itself reviewed by some automated system that may or may not ever get back to you.

This was already an ongoing issue prior to 3rd party tools using Claude subscriptions, there are reports of false positive automated bans going back for several months.

I have not seen or heard of this happening w/ Codex, and rather than trying to shut down 3rd party tools that want to integrate with their ecosystem they have worked with those projects to add official support.

I’m more impressed with Codex as a product in general as well. Their new desktop app is great & feels an order of magnitude better than Claude’s.

Overall HN crowd seems heavily biased in favor of Anthropic (or maybe just against OpenAI?) but IMO Anthropic needs to take a step back and reset. If they keep on the current path of just making small iterative improvements to Claude Code and Claude Desktop they are going to fall very far behind.

New comment by jrsj in "I’m joining OpenAI"

jrsj — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 01:43:07 +0000

There’s plenty of straightforward reasons why OpenAI would want to do this, it doesn’t need to be some sort of malicious conspiracy.

I think it’s good PR (particularly since Anthropics actions against OpenCode and Clawdbot were somewhat controversial) + Peter was able to build a hugely popular thing & clearly would be valuable to have on the team building something along the lines of Claude Cowork. I would expect these future products to be much stronger from a security standpoint.

New comment by jrsj in "Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients"

jrsj — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:41:25 +0000

As an example, this is the exact type of thing Anthropic doesn’t want you to be able to build with Claude & it’s why they want you on their proprietary tooling:

https://builders.ramp.com/post/why-we-built-our-background-a...

Why we built our own background agent

jrsj — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:36:36 +0000

Article URL: https://builders.ramp.com/post/why-we-built-our-background-agent

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46589842

Points: 122

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New comment by jrsj in "Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients"

jrsj — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:30:56 +0000

Yes but why are they subsidizing the pricing and requiring to use their closed source client to benefit from it? It’s the same reason the witch in the story of Hansel and Gretel was giving out free candy.

New comment by jrsj in "Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients"

jrsj — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:28:19 +0000

They wouldn’t require you to use their closed source client if they weren’t planning on using it to extract value from you later. It’s still early & a lot more capabilities are going to be coming to these tools in the coming months. Claude Code or an equivalent will be a full IDE replacement and a lot of the integration and automation mechanisms are going to be proprietary. Want to offload some of that to the cloud? Claude Code Web is your only option. Someone else drops a better model or a model that’s situationally better at certain types of tasks? You can’t use it unless you move everything off of that stack.

New comment by jrsj in "Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients"

jrsj — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:55:19 +0000

I’m starting to think you’re right but only because software engineers don’t seem to actually value or care about open source anymore. Apparently we have collectively forgotten how bad it can be to let your tools own you instead of the other way around.

Maybe another symptom of Silicon Valley hustle culture — nobody cares about the long term consequences if you can make a quick buck.

New comment by jrsj in "Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients"

jrsj — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:40:52 +0000

If you’ve only got a CLAUDE.md and sub agent definitions in markdown it is pretty easy to do at the moment, although more of their feature set is moving in a direction that doesn’t have 1:1 equivalents in other tools.

The client is closed source for a reason and they issued DMCA takedowns against people who published sourcemaps for a reason.

New comment by jrsj in "Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients"

jrsj — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:38:55 +0000

By only supporting their own cloud service for remote execution & slowly adding more and more proprietary integration points that are incompatible with other tools.