In mid-2024, Anthropic made the deliberate decision to stop chasing benchmarks and focus on practical value. There was a lot of skepticism at the time, but it's proven to be a prescient decision.

That's how you know you've made it: when your pet benchmark becomes a target.

How much longer is Anthropic going to allow OpenCode to use Pro/Max subscriptions? Yes, it's technically possible, but it's against Anthropic's ToS. [1]

1: https://blog.devgenius.io/you-might-be-breaking-claudes-tos-...

It's short-term vs long-term optimization. Short-term optimization is making the system effective right now. Long-term optimization is exploring ways to improve the system as a whole.

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