1. Anthropic realized their models weren't enough of a moat.
2. They built tools so they could expand their moat.
3. People don't want to use their tools, they want their models, and use other, better tools.
4. Anthropic bans the use of better tools, taking advantage of their model superiority to try to lock people into subpar tools.
"I don't have enough of a moat so I'll use my little moat and pretend it's a big one" doesn't sound like a great strategy. All they're doing with this anticonsumer behaviour is making sure that I'll leave the moment another model works for me as well as Claude does.
Apparently not for Anthropic, since they've been wanting to build a larger one by force. My point is you can't build a moat by forcing people, it defeats the purpose.
1. Anthropic realized their models weren't enough of a moat.
2. They built tools so they could expand their moat.
3. People don't want to use their tools, they want their models, and use other, better tools.
4. Anthropic bans the use of better tools, taking advantage of their model superiority to try to lock people into subpar tools.
"I don't have enough of a moat so I'll use my little moat and pretend it's a big one" doesn't sound like a great strategy. All they're doing with this anticonsumer behaviour is making sure that I'll leave the moment another model works for me as well as Claude does.