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> My opinion is that claude code uses more tokens simply because Anthropic makes more money that way and forces people into their subscriptions.

OTOH, this makes typical subscriptions usages consume more tokens, which are included in their flat fee.

This sounds more like incompetence than malice.

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It would be true if there was a unified "Anthropic" entity making every decision from pure rationality. Instead, more tokens increase Claude Code team's metrics of token usage, which most likely has a KPI around token usage and adoption.

To remind Goodhart's law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure".

..also to parent's point, yes the upsell is only appealing once user run's out of tokens.

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