UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES from Trump ordering all federal agencies to halt use of Anthropic coding models:
The next best model, after Anthropic's models, is a Chinese model, either Qwen3.5 or the DeepSeek V4 that's about to be released in days. These models are FREE, can be run LOCALLY, and can be easily customized with fine-tuning training.
None of the recent frontier models from Google, or OpenAI or Microsoft can compete. Anthropic was by far the best coding model on the planet. And now, federal agencies (and soon, contractors) are forbidden to use it.
Thus, President Trump is essentially ordering all federal agencies to find the next best LLM, which is almost certainly going to be a Chinese LLM.
This is what happens when your president treats a U.S. company like a foreign enemy.
Bottom line: America's federal government is run by despicable people who have no morals or ethics whatsoever, and they are forbidding the government from using the best available coding model which is Anthropic / Claude Code (Opus, Sonnet).