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- Developers are using Anthropic's Claude Code harness to access cheaper non-Anthropic models, specifically OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, by routing requests through proxies and services like OpenRouter, per The Information's Alix Coutures.
- Boris Cherney, the head of Anthropic's Claude Code coding tool, "last month found himself in the middle" of the practice (the source excerpt is truncated mid-sentence, so the full context is not available).
Why it matters: Claude Code is Anthropic's own coding harness, so developers using it to reach rival models like OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol via OpenRouter preserves Anthropic's interface while redirecting inference spend elsewhere — a routing pattern that directly challenges the economics of Anthropic's coding tool and lands on the desk of its product head, Boris Cherney.
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