Keep swappable alternatives ready
Anthropic repeatedly cuts off users and uses it doesn't want, so professionals should keep harnesses and models portable, with open-weight or rival fallbacks.
Opus is still unmatched
Many grumble but say nothing matches Opus 5.5 plus Claude Code for complex, large-context work, so they keep using it until it refuses.
Guardrails and hypocrisy grate
Commenters list constant cyber refusals and odd moral objections, and call it hypocritical for a company built on scraped and pirated data to block training uses.