alt Hacker News> It's very clear that Anthropic doesn't really want to expose the secret sauce to end users
Meanwhile, I am observing precisely how VS+Copilot works in my OAI logs with zero friction. Plug in your own API key and you can MITM everything via the provider's logging features.
> Plug in your own API key
I checked with ccusage (a cli tool that checks how much your Claude subscription tokens would have cost via the API).
My $200 a month subscription would have cost me more than $3000. The highest single day would have cost more than $300.
Gemini is cheaper, but not by much.