It makes sense that anthropic is cranking out these products trying to find and maintain a foothold in the market.
But part of me just wishes they would go back to developing and refining an excellent and user-friendly harness.
I can't imagine what the long term support is for the dozens of products they release every three months.
Meanwhile, they're shipping a more and more buggy and Byzantine Claude code with a million switches and tons of ways to use it wrong.
The subscription play really does feel like a bait and switch lock-in: "we can focus less on the harness because people with subscriptions need to use it, and focus on growth."
But part of me just wishes they would go back to developing and refining an excellent and user-friendly harness.
I can't imagine what the long term support is for the dozens of products they release every three months.
Meanwhile, they're shipping a more and more buggy and Byzantine Claude code with a million switches and tons of ways to use it wrong.
The subscription play really does feel like a bait and switch lock-in: "we can focus less on the harness because people with subscriptions need to use it, and focus on growth."
Interested to see if this works out for them.