Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

It's interesting that Anthropic is making their own coding agent with Claude Code - is this a sign of them looking to move up the stack and more into verticals that model wrapper startups are in?

GitHub copilot has now introduced Claude as model as well

This makes sense to me: sell razor blades. Presumably Claude has a large developer distribution channel so they will keep eyeballing what to ‘give away’ that turns the dials on inference billing.

I’d guess this will keep raising the bar for paid or open source competitors, so probably good for end users esp given they aren’t a monopoly by any means.