I'm done.

TL;DR

Anthropic's new June 15th policy caps programmatic Claude usage at $200/month, cutting T3 Chat and similar open-source wrappers from ~$7,500 to $200 — a 40x reduction.

Key Points

• 1.Anthropic announced a new credit system effective June 15th. Paid Claude plans get a dedicated monthly credit matching their tier ($20/$100/$200) for programmatic use via agent SDK and Claude-P, separate from interactive subscription limits.
• 2.The subsidy gap is enormous and the policy change is devastating. A $200/month Claude plan provides an estimated $5,000–$7,500/month of inference interactively, but programmatic use is now capped at $200 — a 25–40x reduction.
• 3.T3 Chat built its entire Claude integration around the agent SDK on Anthropic's explicit guidance. Theo and team chose the agent SDK as the only Anthropic-sanctioned path for open-source local wrappers, making this policy change a direct betrayal of that trust.
• 4.Anthropic's business model depends on enterprise token burn, not subscription subsidization. The $200/month plans are essentially marketing spend to hook developers, who then use Claude at work via expensive API calls — that's why Anthropic's revenue reportedly now exceeds OpenAI's.
• 5.The new three-tier system draws an arbitrary and damaging line. Closed-source Anthropic UIs get full subscription limits; agent SDK/Claude-P wrappers get the $200 credit; anything else (open-source, Open Code, direct API) pays full API rates — 40x more expensive.
• 6.Matt Pocock, who sold a Claude Code course, and Jose Valim (Elixir creator) had been begging for usage clarity for over six months. Anthropic repeatedly promised clarity but stopped acknowledging Pocock once his questions became too persistent, calling this a 'poisoned chalice' announcement.
• 7.The policy effectively bans open-source Claude wrappers from subscription benefits. Tools like Zed, Junie, T3 Chat, Open Claw, and CI integrations — all using agent SDK or Claude-P — now face the $200 cap; Theo confirmed Anthropic is deliberately obfuscating endpoints to prevent workarounds.
• 8.Theo's planned workaround is to embed Anthropic's own terminal UI inside T3 Chat. Since Anthropic only subsidizes their closed-source interface, T3 Chat will offer users a choice: good UI with 40x reduced limits, or Anthropic's 'shitty terminal' with full subscription limits.
• 9.Theo declared he is done with Claude and cancelling his plan, echoing Matt Pocock's conclusion. He urged users to try Codex (citing 'o5.5 on low-fast' as excellent), and stated Anthropic employee statements should be treated as 'a lie on a timer' going forward.