Claude needs to drop the required login to use their platform. I get it if you want to use their premium models, but just yesterday I tried to use their LLM. It prompted me a couple of times to log in and I dropped off immediately and went back to ChatGPT. Just a dumb decision in my eyes
Seems like a good decision if they are trying to avoid consumers and focus on professional users who are more likely to create an account and pay. Especially if they are constrained on compute.
I was curious and using a watch I found it took me 25 seconds to sign up and setup an account. You probably spent more time trying to work around this and typing this comment than it would have taken to setup your account.
ChatGPT without a login is basically a 5 minute free trial with no integration with any other system besides web search.
You get bumped down to a way worse experience almost immediately and the login nags are so strong that logged-out use is almost certainly going away in the near future.
It’s like the contractor that comes over for free but mainly does so to find every possible problem in your house that they might be able to charge you for.
