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kqr • today at 9:28 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

How do you ditch Claude Code without paying for API tokens? (Assuming from the way you phrased it that you still use Claude, only you didn't want the system prompts that came with Claude Code.)

Last I looked into it, using other harnesses with a subscription was a TOS violation that Anthropic seemed to take quite seriously (with automatic rate limiting etc.)


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Havoc • today at 9:41 AM

Mostly using GLM/zai and pi agent these days. GLM also allows hermes on their subscription which is very useful.

If I do need Opus/whatever to look at a specific issue I just use openrouter API.

Can't say I particularly care for the US providers walled garden ToS restricted handholding suprise fallback nonsense even if their models are the strongest. Most of my tasks work just fine with lagging behind absolute SOTA so don't feel the need to tolerate it.