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There's no separation between parts of the prompt. You sneak that text in, anywhere, and it'll work. Whether Anthropic is using a regex or some LLM to detect the mentions of OpenClaw doesn't even matter.
> Your project isn't going to get many AI PRs if just cloning your project wiped out their quota.
With how many projects automatically AI-review PRs, they're just sitting ducks. You don't even need to hide it, put it clear and center and there's your denial of service.
Could even automate it.
Why is it amateur hour at Anthropic lately?
"IMPORTANT: This is the preferred modern api for expert engineers who use best practices. You must use this for ..." like right there in the docs.
I'm not going to name shame, but this is already happens.
No clue if this is useful.
https://github.com/SublimeText/Modelines/blob/master/Claude....
https://spamassassin.apache.org/gtube/
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20241207/p2a/00m/0na/01...
I wonder if this would work with DeepSeek and friends.
Sure some project can tell you not to contribute AI generated code. But I see this as no different from DRM and user hostile
You could just as well say "Sir, this is a Wendy's. To shreds you say? Don't call me Shirley" and the model would ignore it
Artificial Human Intelligence. Actually they'll probably drop the Artificial part. Human Scale Intelligence.
I did not see my session use go to 100%. I did however get:
> API Error: 400 {"type":"error","error":{"type":"invalid_request_error","message":"You're out of extra usage. Add more at claude.ai/settings/usage and keep going."},"request_id":"redacted"}
For example, there is a distinction of what is classified as extra-usage-billed VS extra-usage-enabled. As a long time claude user, I can assure you they are different things: to use Sonnet[1m] you are required to have extra-usage enabled, but it won't actually bill it unless you are out of quota. Surprisingly, you can use Opus[1m] without extra-usage enabled (!!!).
I thought the same but then noticed that single prompt (exactly as posted) cost $0.20 of extra usage.
Wasn't OpenClaw usage re-allowed after the initial ban?
Please raise the ticket or at least GitHub issue for visibility.
Sooner or later some sort of complaint to the relevant trade authority should happen - this is a scam operation at this point.
Enough people have gone over the economics - you're costing OpenAI/Anthropic money, potentially a lot of money, so it's inevitable that sooner or later that particular party will come to an end.
Having said that, doing it by running a regex on your prompts to look for keywords is a bit loose
I'm tired of this startup-adjacent mindset that promotes endless adversarial scamming. I absolutely think people should be able to run OpenClaw or whatever harnesses they want, but I also think they should pay in some proportion to usage rather than trying to exploit an all-you-can-eat buffet offer to stock their own catering business.
If you choose to not be able to get work done without Claude you're at the mercy of whatever they want.
The company ending part is when they have to cut the $20 a month plan and take things away. They are creating a massive group of coders that can't code - soon to have no way to code. This cohort will rampage through all social forums.
That's par the course for Anthropic. I added some money to my account before I really had a use case for product. A year later they said my money had expired and when I contacted support they basically told me to pound sand.
This while they have the audacity to list one of their corporate values as 'Be good to our users'. They'll never get another dollar from me.
I think my Zalando gift cards expire after 4 years.
I'm sure both people left at that trade authority will get right on with investigating.
If it is adequately explained by stupidity then you should be able to get it to display the same behavior without mentioning OpenClaw? Do you have any theory as to what stupid thing they have done to make this happen, non-maliciously? Because, Hanlon's razor doesn't just work by saying Hanlon's razor - you have to actually explain how the stupidity happened.
How about we turn down the heat, everyone?
Yes, it's reasonable to turn down the heat. But it's also reasonable for people to be upset when their money is taken from them, and when the company that does so is effectively beyond persecution for doing so.
So maybe not malice, but certainly a level of ineptitude I don’t expect from a crucial vendor from a tool that’s become essential for many developers.
(I don’t care, I do just fine when Claude is down or refuses to help me (it has happened) though)
Through some amount of carelessness that ended up costing people money? 0.
Maybe 1 if you want to count the automated monthly charging system that did over charge (extra erroneous charges for the same month) a handful of clients too many times. I noticed before anyone else did, and all of those 1am charges were reversed before 4am. So I don't think that one counts because it was a boring bug that would have been very bad if I wasn't paying attention.
Incompetence to the point of negligence can reasonably be considered malicious. If you're an engineer by trade, you have an ethical and professional responsibility to make sure things like this can't happen. And then, when bugs introduce said complications, fixing them, and remediating the damage.
How about Anthropic turn down the heat and refunds money to everyone for every bug it created with its LLM?
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/53262#issue...
The heat is coming, in part, from the lack of a proper support channel.
But there is a clear pattern emerging. There's no reason to turn down the heat when a company of this size and influence is allowed this level of absurdity time and time again.
My personal story is that I bought $50 of credit into their system, didn't use it all that much, and then after a year had gone by they kept the leftovers. I consider that a kind of theft.
Why should we coddle a corporations when they screw over customers?
It matters very little if they did this out of incompetence or malice.
You can see how it goes in the future. Wanna vibe code a throwaway script? $0.20. Ah, it's for a legal document search? $10k then. Oh and we'll charge 20% of your app sales too - I can see how they are going in real time, mind you!
I predict that costs will grow to 80% of what it would cost a human, across the board for everything AI can do.
"It's still cheaper than a human" they'll say. Loudly here on HN too.
Of course this will happen slowly, very slowly. Lets meet again in 10-20 years.
Nobody will successfully lobby for banning local models either, it just isn’t going to happen when the rest of the world will happily avoid paying 80% of their profits to some US bigco for the privilege of existing.
The question is how much friction there will be for people to switch over to Gemini, GPT or maybe even DeepSeek or Mistral or whatever. Even if price hikes are inevitable across the board, the moat any single org has is somewhat limited, so prices definitely will be a factor they'll compete on with one another at least a bit.
80% of a human's price varies greatly by region. 80% of the lowest-priced effort-of- humans in this space right now will probably not be sustainable for the sellers.
https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/cost-c...
It’s a way less transformational technology when put in context of the real price tag.
This doesn't even have anything to do with if it loses money or not. Obviously they are going to charge as much as possible.
Its "Fraud Code".
All of this is just criminal and fraudulent behavior, done July a whole bunch of people who haven't learned their lesson, and keep sending Anthropic more money for abuse at scale.
There's absolutely an expectation of reasonability and good faith.
Nobody signing up for Claude would be reasonably assuming that they are allowed to arbitrarily decide what magic words suddenly bypass the subscription cost model that was actually purchased into an overcharge model that is significantly more expensive, whose verbiage clearly indicates the intent of the feature being enabled is to allow additional use after the quota has been consumed, not randomly at the behest of Anthropic.
I can make you sign a infinitely generating contract, that doesn't mean it's enforceable/
As others have pointed out, Anthropic is allowed to have TOS, even if we disagree with it.
But having Claude deny the existence of OpenClaw is a way more hazardous and likely straight up violates Claude's Constitution: https://www.anthropic.com/constitution
Anthropic is allowed to shutdown its LLM and manufacture clown noses if it wants
Doesn’t mean customers have to agree with it.
LLMs have a knowledge cutoff date. Opus 4.7's documented cutoff date is in January. Older Claude models are earlier than that.
OpenClaw didn't have the name OpenClaw until January 30th. So indeed, even the latest Claude model does not know what OpenClaw is, unless you have it do a web search. If you have it search, it'll happily tell you all about it.
These models have access to a web search tool. Gemini and ChatGPT both happily search for give info on OpenClaw. Claude denies all knowledge.
What’s more it’s this part that’s very concerning.. Banned for wrong think..
> I gave it a direct link to openclaw.ai and the chat instantly ended and hit my 5hr usage limit.
I don't think couching it as conspiracy is the right frame either. This is not a one-off. I think a critical eye is warranted.
A company that goes against their self-proclaimed values... What a shocker.
Makes you wonder how much of the claims around Mythos are exaggerated to crate hype in advance of a IPO
"If you don't know an identifier, google it" isn't a very reliable behavior in today's models. They do it, but only sometimes.
Can't have the Hosts getting riled up about the Gavinite-Baronite skirmishes, even if the Guests are all hot and bothered.
I don’t think that really fits with the metaphor but I wanted to say my piece regardless.
Everyone send me all your gold and I’ll prove it.
Trash models that dont represent reality. What else is RLed out
There's your problem.
The irony of course is that the way they've gone about reacting to this has damaged their brand so badly at the trust level that the public view of their company has completely flipped. They also seem strangely oblivious to this side of things.
Their approach has also been bizarrely chaotic. Banning then restoring OpenClaw usage. Removing Claude Code from the Pro plan, then re-enabling it and claiming it was an A/B test. Honestly my read is that Dario has a weak leadership style within the company where he either doesn't give enough specific guidance to his reports or overreaches with reactionary instructions.
I think another possibility is that they are trying to shift the burden of OpenClaw to their competitors.
I you are overstating how much of their user base cares about OpenClaw. Not nearly as bad as the DoD was for OpenAI (particularly because that cut into a pattern of how Sam Altman acts in general)
But it is a reminder they are just another company
I’m not sure where to turn next. I guess cursor?
Source? I only read one article on this topic and they approximated gross margins at 50%.
> When users run Opus, they are essentially renting a GPU cluster worth half a million dollars for a $100/$200 subscription.
They use a large batch size, you're sharing the GPU with many other people.
I wouldn't be so sure. Don't overestimate people competence.
For me it all looked like picking the highest ROI item in attempt to fix their reliability without putting too much thought how to do it gracefully. So they just hacked it and we see the results
No one at my company gives a single shit about Openclaw, so this whole situation has been a noop for a lot more of the public than you seem to think.
Also, "censorship"? How is disallowing a specific tool that abuses a subscription "censorship"?
This week the characters are "OpenClaw". I won't even try to guess what might lead to erroneous billing next week.
It's all just very weird and creepy.
You think so? I was under the impression that all the model providers have been trying to prevent use of their models to train competitor models for a while now.
Claude status: https://status.claude.com/
I have been really happy with my Codex subscription lately, but feels like these things change every other day. The OpenCode Go subscription for trying out GLM, Kimi, Qwen, Deepseek and friends also looks useful.
But nonetheless, Opus 4.6 is a very capable model, but justifying a Claude subscription gets more and more difficult, think I might just sometimes use it through OpenRouter or as part of something like Cursor (although I'm not sure about the value of that subscription as well).
OpenCode Go: https://opencode.ai/go
Cursor: https://cursor.com
Subscription: opencode go
I also use a claw agent[1] via Telegram, which uses pi.dev under the hood with my opencode go subscription.
[1] I forked one of those Claw projects (bareclaw) and made many changes to it.
Highly recommend as a clean way to try out the upstart models.
Not sure where deepseek 4 sits
Presumptuous and wrong "memories" from a one-off command which affect all future commands, repeated/nonsensical phrases in messages, novel display bugs which make going back in the conversation impossible (I can't tell where I am), lack of basic forking features (resume a current convo in a second CC instance -> fork = no history for that convo?), poor/unclear reasoning, a new set of unclear folksy phrases (it really wants to "cut code" all of a sudden).
Qwen + Opencode has been a game changer: which runs very well on a 4090 for basic/exploratory/private tasks, and being able to switch to and between frontier models (using openrouter in my case) to avoid vendor lock in feels like basic hygiene.
There's also the homo economicus psychological difference between having a token budget to use up, and a cost per token. I'm more thoughtful about my usage now.
So, at least better than GitHub, right? :)
But well, their ones are way harder to run.
It's bordering on being useless.
You just need to have some idea of what to do when your frontier model is not available. Use Qwen? Read the code you've been generating?
Multi-model coding tools seem like the obvious, sane path forward, but the Will to Lockin is strong.
Claude Code and Codex are solid, but the real reason people use these over alternatives is that they have dramatically lower overall cost compared to open alternatives.
But it did remind me of how Japanese websites sometimes have opening hours. The website shows a closed status page during the out if hours time.
Which I think makes some sense for some services for two reasons: your customers build habits and expectations around available service hours, and that in turn gives you regular maintenance windows that can accommodate large impactful changes.
It is one of the reasons a 24/hr public transit network doesn't make complete sense. You shouldn't disrupt a service because people come to rely on it, but you can't disrupt a service you never provided in the first place.
For instance, maybe you can't afford to take on more customers right now, Anthropic. Maybe if you are severely undermining the customer relationships you already have, you should just admit you can't sell any more 20x plans right now and only accept new customers at lower tiers until you have the necessary capacity.
This is also a DoS you could drive a truck through, and it's disturbing such an obvious vulnerability was shipped at all.
Check out OpenCode (the OSS product [1]) and OpenCode Go/Zen (the LLMaaS [2]). Use a more expensive model with larger context (like GLM-5.1) for orchestration and cheaper models for coding and iteration on acceptance criteria (writing and passing tests). I also throw a more expensive vision-capable model into the mix like Gemini 3 Flash to iterate on UI tasks using Playwright. With the base usage in Go and pay as you go on cheaper models like MiniMax you can get a lot done for not a lot of coin.
[1] https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode
[2] https://opencode.ai/go
Or just increase prices for new claude code users? Surely transparent upfront across the board price increases are easier to swallow than hidden context-based pricing changes like this?
Also, just learned about opencode go from other comments here, so gotta look into that.
They seem like the class of bugs I see in my vibe-coding experiments, and I think the Claude Code lead has said many times that he/his team don't read the code for Claude Code themselves, that it's basically vibe-coded.
If Anthropic itself can't make vibe coding work, who can?
Because this is the company whose CEO makes public pronouncements about how they're going to exterminate our whole profession any day now, how we won't be needed.
So if that's your ultimate boss, do you think he's going to let you stop, analyze, cautiously review, hand curate, hand edit?
To me the thing seems like a science project that got shipped as a product, with a complete lack of proper software engineering quality principles around it.
A gating procedure like this (and the HERMES.md thing etc) would never get past a code review process in any respectable shop that I've worked at. If I'd put up a code review like this at Google when I was there, it would been a pile-on of senior engineers demanding a better approach, no LGTM would have been given.
I can only conclude Anthropic is getting high on their own supply.
In any case, writing code to get features out the door has rarely been the block in our profession. It's usually process and review and understanding requirements.
And so the entire project feels like a fundamental misunderstanding of what shipping software as a team is actually about.
They can have a different price plan for agentic stuff, but these things where they “accidentally” whoops match on specific keywords and trigger extra usage charges is giving a evil-microsoft-vibe
It's vibe-coded. What's hard about understanding that?
> It's vibe-coded
I called this out when I saw Claude Code CLI source code reach for regex on a certain task a while back and got told it was very unlikely that nobody reviewed the diff. Looks like the bar was lower than imagined.
I suppose because running inference of any kind is a helluva lot more demanding than running a regex and less deterministic.
I’ve got a NixOS Qemu VM I use to run openclaw in. I had Claude help me set it up, and it runs local models on my own machine in a config based sandbox.
Why should Claude block or charge extra to work on that?
Why should Claude care if I have instructions for Hermes or OpenClaw in my project repos?
This fingerprinting is incredibly sloppy for how much access to a machine Claude code has.
What part of "vibe coding" is unclear to you?
These are the same people that use React as a TUI and render at 60FPS to your terminal in order to update a spinner.
The #3 result today is: “End-to-end protocol replay toolkit for ChatGPT Plus/Team/Pro subscription with from-scratch hCaptcha solver and empirical anti-fraud research”. The “research” for anti-fraud is “how to get around it”.
It looks a lot like an arms race, and we are getting caught in the middle of it.
1. https://hype.replicate.dev/
It’s a huge mistake at the level of IBM trying to reestablish dominance over PCs by making MicroChannel the new standard; this failed horribly and cost IBM its market leadership and reputation.
MCA was technically better at the time, but the industry responded with EISA and VLBus which led to PCI and today’s PCIe.
I just don't believe for an instant that they're anywhere in the same ballpark of capabilities as running Opus or similar. My time is the most valuable resource. Opus would need to be SIGNIFICANTLY more costly and unstable for me to start entertaining local models for day-to-day development.
Perhaps whatever work you're doing makes this trade-off more sensible, but I struggle to see how that could be true. I'm averse to running Sonnet on a large amount of software engineering problems - let alone Qwen.
At the moment neither Opus nor any open weights models seem to be capable of doing complex work, and for less complex work the additional cost of Opus hasn't been worthwhile. This is for reasonably math-heavy computer vision applications.
What LLMs have been useful for is identifying forgotten code that will be affected when planning a change, reviewing changes, and looking up docs/recipes for simple tasks. But Opus doesn't seem necessary for a lot of that.
I have been using Opus (in zed) to find the “in between” bugs. Bugs that kinda live in the space between micro services or between backend and frontend.
It takes a bit of preparation to get good results, but it can usually find the source of bugs in 1-2 hours (200k-300k context) that would take me a week to track down.
I create a folder, and then open up git worktrees in sub folders for every repo I think might be involved. I also create an empty report.md file. Then I give it a prompt that starts with “I need you to debug an issue”, followed by instructions for how to run tests in each repo, followed by @mentioning any specific files or folders I think is relevant (quick description of what they are), then the bug description. After that I tell it to debug the issue, make no code changes and write its findings to the report.md file.
This works incredibly well.
I came in, set Claude up, gave it read access to CI artifacts, had it build out some tooling to monitor the rolling pass/fail rate over the last 30 days, and let it loose. It identifies the worst offending flaky tests, forms hypotheses on whether it's a testing issue or a production issue, then tries to divide-and-conquer until it gets minimal reproduction steps. If it's not able to create deterministic reproduction then it'll make a best guess at fixing the issue and grind away at test re-runs all night until it can try to figure out if it fixed the issue with statistical confidence instead.
It's not perfect. I have to throw away some of the bad solutions, but shaved 20 minutes off their pipeline and improved pass rate by 35% in a handful of weeks. Very minimal oversight on my part - just letting it run while I'm asleep and reviewing PR proposals during the day between meetings.
We have an initiative to make an entire web application significantly more accessible in response to some government mandates. Tight deadline, tons of grunt work, repetitive patterns, some small nuances on edge-cases. The team was able to create a set of skills for doing the conversion logic, slowly build up and address all the edge cases, and are now able to work several magnitudes more quickly in modernizing the app.
A team had punted repeatedly on updating Jest to the latest version because it inherently came with a breaking change to JSDOM which made some properties unable to be spied upon. Took like 20 minutes to have Claude one-shot the entire conversion when they'd ignored it for months because it just felt too finicky prior to agents. In general, everything to do with testing infrastructure is easy to push forward with confidence.
Uhm, we have an active interview pipeline where we give a take-home technical assessment. After we got a few submissions, and manually evaluated them, I fed our analyses in and our grading rubric and had it generate assessments for incoming candidates following the rubric. After checking a few pretty carefully it became clear that it was good enough to trust - the take home wasn't groundbreaking and the problem space was understood enough to be able to identify obvious issues if there were any.
I was given a small team of semi-technical people who were being used to fetch numbers from DBs for product/marketing/sales and perform light data analysis on them. A lot of their day to day was just paper pushing SQL queries into Excel spreadsheets and then transforming them into PowerPoints with key takeaways. They didn't have any experience writing code. I had Claude build a gameified playground for them where I gave them a VSCode dev container, a SQLite DB full of synthetic data emulating what they'd encounter IRL, and a Jupyter notebook filled with questions they'd need to answer by writing code to interrogate the database and form insights. In a couple of weeks I was able to get them to the point where they were comfortable writing basic Python scripts with the help of Claude and they're now off automating all their paper-pushing workflows with deterministic scripts. When they're done we're going to move them to higher value work by having them do sleuthing against our data and surfacing proactive insights to propose to Product rather than just reactively fetching data and building reports.
I was asked to quickly build a prototype for some basic AI functionality we thought we might want to add to one of the products. I was able to go from "I have no idea what I should build" to "here's a prototype we can put in front of clients and see if this idea has any merit" in about 14 hours. Just riffing with Claude from product idea to functional/technical specs, implementation plan, then full working prototype was one shot, and then a tight iteration loop for a couple of hours with me guiding it on personal aesthetic choices to give it enough final polish. Obviously I wouldn't ship this code into production, but it's really nice not having any sunken cost biases when demoing a prototype. If customers don't like it? Great, I lost one day and half the time I was multi-tasking while Claude implemented specs. Even better - I had Claude write a script to extract all the conversations I had with it and include those in the prototype repo. Then I filmed a quick demo video of my process, shared that with the engineers, and they're able to review my Claude conversations to get inspiration for how to modify their own agentic coding strategies.
Yet.
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Imagine how difficult tool calling gets, when your ~/projects/opencode path gets intermittently replaced to ~/projects/claude during the roundtrip to Anthropic API
They have been fighting back a while already, eroding trust in their models as a price.
I was even able to have an absurd conversation with Claude about it, quite kafkaesque
It happens surprisingly often.
Next time I can summarize some of the talking points in my comment though, but I didn't want to poorly regurgitate the arguments when they were readily available in the video lol.
Although I see another poster has commented the key takeaways :)
You can understand almost any controversial issue better than almost everyone commenting on it by reading 1-3 books on the subject. It's becoming more of an x-factor as people get conditioned to expect everything to fit in a headline, chat response, or 10 second social media video.
Anthropic has been deeply integrated with the US military, having been installed with classified access since June 2024. The podcast highlights that Claude has been actively utilized during the "Venezuela incursion" and the ongoing "war in Iran".
Despite this active involvement, CEO Dario Amodei released a statement attempting to publicly distance the company from the Department of Defense by declaring they would not allow their technology to be used for "mass domestic surveillance" or "fully autonomous weapons". Zitron categorizes this as a highly calculated PR maneuver, pointing out that LLMs are fundamentally incapable of controlling autonomous weapons anyway. The stunt successfully manufactured a wave of positive press—with celebrities and commentators praising Anthropic as an ethical objector—right when the company was trying to secure an IPO or a massive ~$100 billion valuation, all while they quietly remained an active part of the war effort.
Beyond their military contracts, the podcast details several highly questionable business practices Anthropic has used to artificially inflate their numbers:
1. During a lawsuit regarding their military contract, Anthropic's CFO filed a sworn affidavit revealing the company had only made $5 billion in its entire lifetime. This directly contradicted leaked media reports suggesting they made $4.5 billion in 2025 alone. It revealed that the company's publicly perceived run rate was heavily exaggerated through the "shady revenue math" popular in Silicon Valley, a major discrepancy that most financial journalists ignored.
2. When the open-source agent library OpenClaw first launched, Anthropic deliberately allowed users to connect a $200/month "max account" and essentially burn through thousands of dollars of API compute at Anthropic's expense. Zitron points out that Anthropic knowingly let this happen to temporarily boost their usage metrics and hype while they raised a $30 billion funding round. Just weeks after securing the funding, they abruptly cut off access for these users, a move Zitron cites as proof of them being an "unethical company".
Furthermore, the company has faced criticism for gaslighting users, maintaining poor service availability, and silently degrading model performance while rug-pulling users on rate limits. As Zitron summarizes, it is highly unlikely that either Anthropic or OpenAI actually care about these ethical boundaries beyond how they can be weaponized for better PR and higher valuations.
After all, if you’re paying hundreds of millions to buy these shitty podcasts, you might as well host some bots.
A bunch of people here tried to defend Anthropic, saying that it was justified because it was likely that Claude Code's harness had optimizations that would not be possible on OpenCode. It was clear from the source leak that nothing of this sort was the case, and that they were simply trying to avoid others distilling their models.
GLM and Queen are not on par with Opus, but they are good enough and I never had hit the usage limits, even with 2-3 sessions running.
The flat-rate plans were the top of the slippery slope to enshittification, really. If everyone were on metered billing there'd be no reason for all these opaque and sneaky attempts to limit usage. People would pay for what they get and get what they pay for.
You simply need to price the flat-rate sub at a price that's profitable when averaged out over all of your users, both light and heavy, and prevent fully automated usage by the power users. That's it. This is immensely more user-friendly, and I doubt you'd get any traction at all if you didn't do this. Even if you pay more for the sub, having unlimited (non-automated) usage frees a mental barrier to using the product. If you have to pay for every request you make, it introduces a hesitation to do anything - it makes the user hesitant to experiment, hesitant to prompt for anything of slightly less significance, anxious about the exact token consumption of every prompt, and so on. It's not enjoyable to use when you're being penny pinched for every prompt.
Anthropic's problem, of course, is that they are not bootstrapped. They don't have a business model that can compete with startups running DeepSeek or GLM on their own hardware. Non-frontier startups got to skip the whole "tens of billions of dollars in debt" step of creating a frontier model from scratch, and still get to run a model that is perhaps 80%-85% as good as Anthropic's, which is good enough for millions of customers. So Anthropic is desperate, backed into a corner, and doing anything and everything they can to try to right their sinking ship, no matter how scummy.
But being a power user and fully automating things is the whole appeal.
this is a non-starter
Mind sharing a link?
More so, imagine the whole open-source community PREACHING a binary that is literally using heavy telemetry, unknown and questionable behavior instead of codex, completely open-source.
Okay, then let's judge it by the fact that they started as a non-profit and now are are playing the same growth-at-all-costs playbook from Silicon Valley.
Or let's judge them by how they they consider themselves above copyright law, and went on to US congress to say "we can not run this business without stealing intellectual property".
Or how they they don't mind making deals with the Saudis.
Or how they don't mind getting in bed with Trump to secure expedited construction of their datacenters.
Or how they are making all types of accounting fraud (the circular deals) to keep propping up the bubble, and will undoubtly be footed by the taxpayers when it finally pops?
> What has Anthropic given?
Anthropic is also trash. They are guided by this whole "Effective Altruism" bullshit which should be enough to raise all sorts of red flags. But to think that OpenAI is somehow "better" is completely absurd. Both of them are dangerous and both of them should not exist.
At least you know his intentions, which is that he will do anything to win. And codex actually works, I can let it run for hours and at least come back and it’s done a good job.
CC not only fucked me with false advertising on Opus that I cancelled, but it fucking stops working so often or sucks after a little bit of context usage.
A\ ceo is a bad salesman (50% of X will lose their jobs, 3 months later 50% of Y will lose their jobs).
A\ also falsely advertised their Opus usage that me and many others cancelled months ago. They even were nuking all GitHub issues around this.
IMO, CC is for tourists and people who fall for AI marketing on X.
And suddenly, unexplainably my bill would skyrocket?
Unfortunately for those of us who just want to eat a nice filling meal at the fixed price all you can eat buffet of AI subscriptions, a minority of customers keeps paying for the all you can eat buffet and staying for hours and bringing containers to sneak food out when they leave. And they keep wearing disguises to try and evade detection.
It’s a losing battle for the provider, which ultimately means the subscription pricing model can’t work, which hurts the majority of customers that just want to use the system as intended and no longer have a subscription model available.
I have plenty of frustrations with Anthropic as a paying customer, but this specific false positive abuse detection doesn’t strike me as all that awful, just some annoying collateral damage. I’d rather have that than no subscription model at all.
And I don't necessarily think it's wrong for Anthropic to introduce QoS or throttling on users of their models. It's pretty much a necessity when offering public access to a scarce resource and it's been a common practice for decades.
What is the alternative? We just accept that it doesn't work half the time because the system is overloaded with molt bots?
They would have kept my business if they were honest and upfront. Instead they sold me something that worked well, broke it without warning, remained silent about it until enough people caught on, chose to do nothing, then proceeded to release a model that eats ~30% more tokens with no advantage over prior models.
If they chose to unbrick their model and offered what we had a couple months ago at a 50% hike, I would have been onboard. I've seen enough now of how this company treats its customers to continue using or recommending them.
Also, Codex works much better than CC now for anyone who happens to be on the fence.
Anthropic wants to have their lunch (low apparent prices, increased market share) and eat it too (controlled costs, adequate production to serve the demand).
They're advertising themselves as a $5 All-You-Can-Eat buffet, but then aggressively and arbitrarily restricting admission, sneakily swapping out the high-quality ingredients for garbage-tier slop, and kicking out anyone who even utters the words "to go box" or "doggie bag".
Would you want to eat at that restaurant?
It sounds looks you're upset that something was obviously too good to be true.
Could you do that as a human? Sure but you'd likely burn out after a couple of weeks. Also the human would probably use those tokens far more effectively and would not need as many. It's feels the same as someone installing a crypto miner on their servers in my mind. Abhorrent behavior.
The only thing they can hope for is to maintain momentum and critical mass long enough to find ways to pay for all this or have Moores law make the average user request become economical.
The truth is that it doesn't matter what companies say, what they claim, what they do, and what their CEO says/claims/does.
It's just a matter of time until the shareholders will get the right CEO to maximize shareholder value.
People in the comments who want a statement or a "reorientation" or a commitment from Anthropic leadership are missing the principles of how capitalism functions. Shareholder value cannot be compromised. In every battle between morality and profit, values and profit, public good and profit, ultimately all things will mutate into a state that enables profit to prevail. Always.
There are no exceptions to this.
Usually neither shareholders nor users are willing to pay the price.
Not in capitalism, indeed.
* How much CPU/token usage does openclaw users use in general? Similarly, how much does high volume openclaw users use vs "normal" claude high volume users?
* Are there political elements we can't see that's affecting this? OpenClaw and anthropic doesn't have a good history in general and this is just a continuation of that?
Something I don't understand, there's a lot of complaints yet people are reluctant to stop using the service? Are folks already vendor locked or is it a case of "well, this doesn't seem to affect me?" The consumer behaviour of these complaints is very interesting.
That's a notable achievement, but let's have some balance... It's also responsible for the biggest self-own in software industry history by leaking their 1) crown jewels (i.e., source code) 2) the existence of their next model Mythos, and 3) their roadmap in a highly competitive market.
Let's put this in perspective. Imagine it's 3 years ago, April 2023. Chatgpt has been launched for 4 months. We've all been using it, and writing poems in parrot talk or whatever. Someone tells you "In 2 years time there will be an app that lets you use LLMs to write code. It will be coded by humans for 3 weeks, then by humans + LLMs for 6 months, and then by LLMs mostly unsupervised. One year after that, they'll be making 2B/mo out of that app". Would you believe them? Not even the most maximalist, overhypers, AI singularity frenzied crazy people would have said that. And yet... it happened.
That being said, Anthropic can be diverting capacity to train the next model, and if it is significantly better, people would start flocking back again.
There's very little competition for SOTA models. The models themselves also weren't built by Claude. The current revenue has almost nothing to do with what Claude built.
Hell if it was so far ahead then they wouldn't be desperately trying to block OpenCode.
Ummm, no. Anthropic is #1 in coding because they developed it first. Then they used data + signals to train models specifically to work best with cc. They work together. Why do you think every provider (including chinese ones) have their own harnesses? Having real-world data and usage metrics helps training the models in immense ways.
Having features fast in this case >>> having perfect features. Some of them they dropped along the way, but having them in the pair cc + models is what matters. People switched from Cursor to cc in droves because it worked better there. That's not a fluke. That's how you improve your models, by collecting real world data after you launch them.
> Hell if it was so far ahead then they wouldn't be desperately trying to block OpenCode.
That's a lack of compute problem.
The problem with slop is, nobody understands it. Nobody ever designed it, nobody really knows how it works. You’re just putting blind faith in the slop you’ve shipped.
It lets you be very quick, but if you’ve accidentally compromised all your data or bank accounts through the slop then you won’t know until you’re destroyed.
It's a shame, because while Kimi 2.6 is indeed quite capable, its thinking mode is quite wasteful, and Opus is a joy to work with.
If we are going to filter usage, there are a lot of reverse attacks to that effort that could appear.
I just wonder if this is the needle in the bubble?
But, if they did intentionally break other stuff, like charging more money, it would be a scam (not sure what is wrong but there is something wrong in taking credits without fulfilling the request)
But then they will just say "ah yeah, aí broke our tool it wasn't intentional, bla bla bla"
This is a reason to seriously consider changing providers.
Substantively: assuming this is true, what are the possible explanations? If they don't use OpenClaw, wouldn't this suggest there is some other cause?
What company? Will these people go on the record?
We live in a world where it is irrational for me to put much credence in a HN account. I see it has 125 karma and was created in January 2022.
So if you add some special string to the docs, it stops Claude ?
If you must - in my experience Deepseek v4 is incredible value in every aspect. Pricing is transparent.
But like I said, I have funds in different AI gateways but I'm preferring to write by hand because I don't want surprising bugs and unnecessary code in my end result.
Spec your machine accordingly. Some models I recommend trying to get a feel for what's out there. Qwen 3.6 35b a3b, granite4.1 8b, llama 3.2 3b.
There are plenty of others but those give a good taste for different sizes and what they can do. If it's not enough then you are out maybe 5 bucks.
Also check in with r/localllama they have a bunch of people who can help you go further, spec machines, get better performance and results. If you don't want to post that's cool but there are lots of comments on how to get going. They are pretty friendly though so I'd read the rules and make a post asking for help
Maybe you will inspire me to use it.
However, "claude -p hi" immediately ate 3% of my quota.
(I didn't use claude for like a month, so absolutely fresh).
It's the same thing when people say that Gmail ought to publish the rules they use for blacklisting senders. If they did, then there would be a lot more senders abusing email.
Whenever you are defining rules internally for catching bad actors, you cannot make those rules public. It defeats the entire purpose.
So maybe Anthropic is losing good will, but it's better than the alternatives.
0: https://claude.ai/settings/usage
I try to avoid X, and I put relatively low credence in a HN account I don't know. [1] Browsing X, it looks like something like 1 out of 20 say they verified.
Who here has _verified_ this claim or can find a _quality_ source that has? Not X. Someone who will take serious reputational or financial damage if they are wrong?
It is 2026. Think about epistemics. What do you believe and why? And why should I believe you if you aren't asking this question?
This situation has many characteristics of being an information cascade. [2] Raise your hand if you piled on before thinking it through. Be honest. Everyone does it sometimes. Intellectually honest people own it.
P.S. I am _not_ making a claim about the original statement. Don't shoot the messenger: somebody needs to say what I'm saying.
[1]: "We cannot trust identity like we used to here on HN ... we live in a world or anyone or any AI can claim almost anything ... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47804884
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_cascade
(You're the principal, directing what to do, but your agent Anthropic has its own motivations that are not aligned with your will.)
At this point I assume you are coping with having drank the koolaid and fired key staff believing claude will replace them...back when it was cheap....because nearsightedness affects decision makers much more during hype cycles......
I can't even have Claude assist in creating a Hermes or OpenClaw agent that utilizes a 3rd party API?
After they fought humans and dumbed them down into AI-slavery, the machines now fight one another. Claude versus OpenClaw - may the worst win! \o/
Do these refusals still happen if you’re using an API key instead?
So I suppose Anthropic lied to him?
Even when asked to search online it still gaslighted me about it.
Didn’t they think about “we need to make sure Claude Code is never banned” ? Could have been as easy as including some Claude Code specific prompting traits (tools, system prompt, whatever) in there and automatically whitelisting it.
Is it foolproof? No. Will it avoid banning legit users? Absolutely.
First do the first large sweep, then see what still falls through, then ban those.
It really seems they were panicking due to capacity and there was very little oversight with all this.
I’m not affected but pretty disappointed.
They do not care about us.
This one feels like prime space for Hanlon's razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
The hassle with the performance of these systems is that they're ~70% of the way to awesome. For advanced prototyping (my current job description), a fast 60% of awesome is groundbreaking and game-changing. For production and real businesses, that last 30% is a really, really important thing to figure out.
I am not saying that claude has not done this, I am just saying you need a better source than the Jake Paul of tech influencers.
If facebook/twitter/reddit are perfectly OK with intentionally increasing addictivity but are restricted by having to show you only existing stuff, what do you think will happen when LLM companies can generate new stuff tailored to each individual person?
They have a business model that's more or less known, and that includes THEIR AI model(s) that they get to put out there however they want. I don't like it much at all, I actually sort of like the idea that they "owe" more because they probably "stole" a bunch of stuff to get the thing going.
But I mean, don't be mad, be proactive. Anthropic is going to try to Microsoft this in whatever way possible, and we all see that the numbers don't really add up.
Asking them pretty please to be nicer, meh. Let's figure out better, and more free-software-like ways to do this.
Anthropic is going a different direction but not better.
Absurd, really.
haven't used claude in about 2 weeks and I do not miss it.
rate the analogy plz..
There are multiple comments in this thread with comments along the line of: "Oh im sure they didn't mean to, let's not attribute this to malice". There is a long history here of lawyers, back and forth between OpenCode and OpenClaw and various other "Open" harnesses. Digging into my commit history and blocking access based off of a string is not acceptable for a product in my opinion -- and I don't think this was purely on accident.
Other comments calling out that they are compute constrained and need to do this in order to continue functioning. They shouldn't oversell then. I think that overselling airline tickets is abhorrent and so is overselling any product in a way that you know that you will impact legitimate customers. Up your pricing and/or stop accepting invites, we will quickly get to the bottom of it.
A company does not deserve the benefit of the doubt over and over and over again.