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Posted by jmsflknr 10 hours ago

Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again(docs.openclaw.ai)
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EFLKumo 7 hours ago|
Whether to allow Claude subscription to access other services or not, at this point, anthropic seems to be schizophrenic, sometimes worried about insufficient computing power and sometimes worried about user loss, which is puzzling.
ralusek 7 hours ago||
What's puzzling or schizophrenic about that? Those seem like two very natural factors that would be in tension with one another and have to be balanced.
EFLKumo 3 hours ago||
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baobabKoodaa 6 hours ago||
Almost seems like business leaders have to balance different aspirations and make tradeoffs. Unbelieveable.
RoxiHaidi 4 hours ago||
Same, I am from the 3x plan and canceled and switched to Codex 2 days ago...
Frannky 5 hours ago||
Why? Did they figure out cheaper compute? Or did they lose a lot of users, and now the compute is there unused?
spectaclepiece 3 hours ago||
What models have you guys tried to use with OpenClaw that you've found suitable for the task? Codex personally rules for my dev style but not sure how well it works in the claw scenario.
doginasuit 5 hours ago||
I'm out of the loop on Claude, hasn't it always been possible to use the Anthropic API with a tool like OpenClaw, paying per request? Is this limitation just for using your monthly subscription account?
LatencyKills 3 hours ago||
Many people likely objected to the original restriction because it seemed as though Anthropic was trying to impede the development of competing tools.

If I'm paying for compute, why should it matter whether I use Anthropic's harness (e.g., Claude Code) or a 3rd-party harness?

doginasuit 1 hour ago|||
I find it a little bizarre that people have this expectation. You can still pay for compute and use it the way you want by paying for the product you actually want to use. Subscription products like this are not marketed or intended to be used as access to the API, but they also offer access to the API if that's what you want. I'm still not entirely clear why people insist on using their subscription like this, so let me know if I'm missing something.
sumedh 2 hours ago|||
Isn't their argument that third party harness dont play nice with their GPUs which is a fair argument.

With Claude Code they can predict what the traffic would look like with third party harness they cannot.

LatencyKills 2 hours ago||
If that was the argument, why did they reverse it?

Anthropic is constantly destroying goodwill and now seems to be in panic mode.

handfuloflight 5 hours ago||
Yes, exactly.
solomonb 7 hours ago||
Does this mean you can use openclaw with a Claude Pro account? I'm curious try it but no way i'm going to pay API rates.
jollymonATX 9 hours ago||
How can they be this bad at this? What was all that about then?
tristanb 8 hours ago||
Maybe it’s allowed because they built the ability to direct the costs to your extra usage budget, not your monthly subscription?
darylteo 8 hours ago||
Correction: OpenClaw says Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is okay again.
eterm 8 hours ago||
And then recommends to use an API key, which as far as I know was never restricted, it was trying to use the subscription that was prohibited/limited.

I'm confused by the comments being full of people swearing off Claude, feels like real HN bubble stuff.

dang 7 hours ago||
(That's implied by the sitename to the right of the title)
cap11235 1 hour ago|||
Not at all.
darylteo 7 hours ago|||
/gestures at all the comments
est 6 hours ago|
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=openclaw.ai

hot damn

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