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The decision makes sense, but the developer experience around it is terrible. I assumed OAuth would work for third-party integrations — turns out you need a separate API key with separate billing, and there was zero documentation pointing you in that direction before the cutoff. Anthropic ships fast and the product is great, but they could really learn from Stripe: when your users are engineers, clear docs aren't a nice-to-have — they're your entire sales funnel.


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