Posted by elmean 14 hours ago
cd /tmp
mkdir anthropic-claude
cd anthropic-claude/
git init
touch hello
git add -A
git commit -m "'{\"schema\": \"openclaw.inbound_meta.v1\"}'"
claude -p "hi"
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?
I am almost 40, and I have seen the same pattern play out several times now, it’s always the same.
The ageism in tech probably has something to do with it.
When I see some of these brobdingnagian disasters, I always wonder if there were any adults in the room, when the idea was greenlighted.
They'd rather treat the general version of Greenspun's 10th rule as a commandment, and create a new, ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of some fraction of whatever already addresses the requirement, than learn about how to use some existing tool that they don't already know.
One of my favorite examples is a company that home-rolled their own version of (a subset of) Kubernetes, ending up with a fabulously fragile monstrosity that none of the devs want to touch any more, and those who do quickly regret it.
I'm only half a decade behind you, and I agree. Sad to see really, these are people who work really hard, but I think they are too focused on the algos and nobody is hiring experienced back-end and application builders.
"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.
Those are dark patterns and people are not aware of them. It is an external actor trying to take control of your agent.
I don't think it's necessarily wrong to have those prompts, but it is if it's hidden or obscured. Intent matters a lot here. Which the response to name shaming (and how you name shame) is actually the important part. Getting overly defensive is not the appropriate response. Adding clarity and being more transparent about why such a decision was made is the correct response. We're all bumbling idiots and do stupid stuff. But there's a huge difference between being dumb and malicious, even if the outcome is the same
No clue if this is useful.
https://github.com/SublimeText/Modelines/blob/master/Claude....
https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1qibtgs/does_appl...
[0] https://hackingthe.cloud/ai-llm/exploitation/claude_magic_st...
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
I wonder how long these sorts of games will play before the law applies itself.
Perhaps roughly as long as the law turns a blind eye to AI corps flagrantly violating the attribution requirements of software licenses that apply to their training data, as well as basically ignoring other copyright requirements at scale. Fair use, my eye.
if someone is blinding slurping up content to feed to LLMs, without checking to see if a particular source is OK with that, they are arguably not innocent either.
Neither situation is analogous to a booby-trapped shotgun door blowing off the face of a would-be burglar.
Whose law? Good luck trying to summon a random GitHub user to a court within your jurisdiction.
Sure some project can tell you not to contribute AI generated code. But I see this as no different from DRM and user hostile
I think the GP is focusing on:
> I guess we're giving up on the idea that you're free to do whatever you want with software you own? ... But I see this as no different from DRM and user hostile
If I clone an open source git repository, I should be free to point an LLM to review it in any way I choose. I can't contribute code back, but guess what, I don't want to. I want to understand the codebase, and make modifications for me to use locally myself. I don't have a dev team, I have a feature need for my own personal use.
The LLM enables that. The projects that deliberately sabotage the use of LLMs cease to be providing software that meet the 'libre' definition of free software.
Fine.
Building giant monopolies on top of open source code wasn't in the spirit of open source either. Training AI that reproduces open source code without any credits wasn't either.
I'm not sure why people working on Open Source should continue to accept being whipped like that
But with that said: I think it's time we figure out how to exclude the metaphorical arsonists.
With the expectation that they go on to share it with other candles, not with the expectation that they hoard all of the fire they collect for themselves
Actually, for me at least, the expectation is merely 'do not mess with my flame, you will not stop me from sharing'.
Hoarding is fine (it's not great). Burning down everything around you using borrowed flame, however, is not.
Always has been.
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
But the simple fact is, if you're paying $20/mo and using $200/mo of tokens, that is not going to last forever.
The only way to make it last a bit longer for the people with relatively sane usage patterns is to try and stop people absolutely taking the piss
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.
Do you have a source? I would be interested to read more about any hard figures that have been posted like this.
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.
It's pretty much a universal API credit policy at this point. I'm not sure if this legitimately escapes the prepaid gift card requirements or if the providers see nuance where there might not be any.
Where I live (in Canada) it's actually illegal for gift cards to ever expire, and there's lots available from US companies, so if it's an accounting issue other companies have figured it out.
I'm sure both people left at that trade authority will get right on with investigating.
The Purpose of a System is What it Does[1].
Whether malicious or not, the system does what it does. If people wanted it to do something else they would change the system. The reality is that when corporations make mistakes that benefit them those mistakes rarely get fixed without some sort of public outcry, turning the "mistake" into a "feature".
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...
More about where I think Stafford Beer goes wrong here: https://gemini.google.com/share/9a14f90f096e
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)
Yolo ship it! Move fast and break things. Reviewing just slows everybody down. Nobody can keep up with those coding agents output any longer.
/s
Anywhere inside your bubble. The world is a big place.
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?
"You may not use our service if you mention OpenClaw" is a harsh line but hardly illegal or forbidden any more than any other service restriction (i.e. no use allowed for high-stakes financial modeling). Don't like it, cancel your plan.
But that's the thing -- there is no line! Where is this specified? How can we know what service restrictions there are? For all I know, my plan could be exhausted at any point during the workday just because I happened to touch on some keyword Anthropic has decided to ban.
> Don't like it, cancel your plan.
Ah, but I thought these models were supposed to have been trained for the sake of humanity? That the arbitrary enclosure of the collective intelligence was for our own good? These concepts are not compatible.
Tbh blocking OpenClaw might just be for the betterment of humanity. It's yet to be proven either way.
This is, by the way, the same legal principle that the website you are posting on, right now, uses. Some uses are prohibited. Not every line need be explicit. You aren't allowed to smack talk Y Combinator or the moderators without possibly being banned for life, and you certainly do not have a legal case if they do.
People spend large sums of money for this tool. They can't just delete your balance because they feel like it.
> People spend large sums of money for this tool. They can't just delete your balance because they feel like it.
Unfortunately, in the US, they can. I'm not a lawyer working in this area, but my understanding is that companies are in general free to stop doing business with any customer at any time (other than reasons like the race of the customer). And in this type of transaction, there is no obligation to give a refund when they cut off the business relationship. This is different from a business-to-business contract or other types of contracts. This type of sale you're generally out of luck if the business cuts you off. That's why Amazon can delete the music library they sold you and give you no compensation.
It's possible that Anthropic also structured its EULA such that we're buying Claude Fun-Bucks with no value and that they can obliterate at any time with no recourse. I haven't read the EULA so who knows. But if they did this and it went to court, they'd still need to get a jury to agree to this interpretation and that's a huge unknown.
You could have just stopped there. The rest of what you wrote just re-demonstrates that you don't know what you're talking about.
Intentionally (or negligently) anti-competitive behavior is illegal in the US.
> Don't like it, cancel your plan.
Don't like being abused by a company? Just pretend it's not happening! Anyone else exactly as smart as you were, they deserve to be cheated out of their money too!
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/53262#issue...
I'm sure they will proactively reach out to everyone who was affected without any need on the users part and make everyone whole....
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.
I disagree. The models are going to become commodities (we're already almost there), but the tooling and integrations will be the moat. Reproducing everything Anthropic has already built with Claude Code, Cowork, and all their connectors would be nontrivial, and they're just getting started.
Anyone can implement an AI chatbot. But few will be able to provide AI that's deeply integrated into our daily lives.
They're one org with presumably some specific direction. As the actual models get better, expect a large part of the dev community iterating on tools way more easily, sometimes ones that Anthropic doesn't quite have an equivalent to - for example, just recently Cline released their Kanban solution to dish out tasks to agents (https://cline.bot/kanban), OpenCode has been around for a while for the agentic stuff (https://opencode.ai/) and now has a desktop and web version as well, alongside dozens of others. Cline and KiloCode also have decent browser automation.
I will admit that everyone working on everything at the same time definitely means limitless reinvention of the wheel and some genuinely good initiatives dying off along the way (I personally liked RooCode more than both the Cline and KiloCode for Visual Studio Code, sad to see them go), but I doubt we're gonna see a lack of software. Maybe a lack of good software, though; not like Anthropic or any org has any moat there either, since they're under the additional pressure of having to do a shitload of PR and release new models and keep up appearances, compared to your average dev just pushing to GitHub (unless they want corporate money, in which case they do need some polish).
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...
But that's a bad example, price discrimination for commodities is generally not legal, while discrimination for services is. Data is arguably a commodity (ianal, I'm not up to date on the law of this). "Tokens" are not.
In fact the law makes carve outs specifically for businesses that sell services to discriminate on price based exactly on how the service is used and by who. And they do it all the time.
Whether it's fair or not, up to you to decide as a consumer. If you don't like it don't pay for it.
(I am not a full-time wedding photographer, but have shot maybe 20 weddings, and heard of this multiple times.)
It’s a way less transformational technology when put in context of the real price tag.
Seems most of the open weight models are from outside the USA (shocker), going to be interesting to see how THAT shakes out.
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.
The TOS simply allows Anthropic to decline to fulfill a request at any time for any reason.
Or just that in your opinion, it should be illegal?
Simply doing something anticompetitive is not inherently illegal, despite a lot of people thinking it is.
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/53262#issue...
We're discussing the comment with repro by abdullin:
> Immediate disconnect *and session usage went to 100%*
Emphasis mine.
I ran the commands and did not see session usage go to 100%. I simply got an error message.
I don't have extra usage/API billing enabled. If I did, I wouldn't expect a "hi" to use all of my extra usage. In the link you sent, they genuinely used $200 of credits, they were just billed as credits not as subscription quota.
So we have a couple different behaviors:
- If API/extra usage billing is enabled, it uses that.
- If API/extra usage billing is disabled, abdullin reports session quota going to 100%
- If API/extra usage billing is disabled, margalabargala reports session usage not changing and errors refusing to do anything.
Locally, they also need to abide by the local laws and regulations of anywhere that they choose to sell their services.
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/
But the presumption, as any court will show, is that it is fully blooming enforceable. The burden of proof is on showing it isn't. This particular instance, a lawyer would laugh at you in the face over, this is absolutely 100% stone cold enforceable common and expected.
How do you expect Facebook or HN to moderate if certain uses aren't prohibited? The same principle applies. HN bans certain phrases, lots of them.
And we continue slipping into lawlessness and a low trust society...
Nobody is claiming anticompetitive there
Seriously, not at all. Anti-competitive practices is when you go out of your way to use legal agreements or practices, in an illegal way (i.e. from the starting point of a monopoly), to deliberately restrict the ability to use competition.
Openclaw is not a competitor with Claude. Anti-competitive practices would only occur here if Anthropic used some technique to prevent people from using Claude alternatives (i.e. if you install Claude Code, all other AI agents are forcibly disabled on your system).
Not Claude, but other Anthropic products such as Claude Cowork.
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
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.
"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.
There's your problem.
Trash models that dont represent reality. What else is RLed out
At the time, enforcement was pretty random, and I think based on how heavy your traffic was.
They weren't all on Claude (though it was the preferred setup) and some people had dozens of accounts hooked up with proxies to avoid hitting limits.
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 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.
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.
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Funny you mention that, because I started noticing the word 'harness' being used everywhere about a month ago, even though I hadn’t seen it before (in this context). As I don’t trust my memory, I assumed I had just been overlooking it and added it to my vocabulary. However, a Google Trends search does show increased usage since the end of March: https://trends.google.com.br/trends/explore?date=today%203-m...
It's probably just a coincidence. But that would be pretty interesting if we have an example of some kind of memetic phenomenon where one or more popular LLMs makes a claim that people then start to repeat as true, or at least follow up on it and start writing about it, and in so doing the claim becomes true. Even if it didn't happen in this case, I feel like it's only a matter of time.
Highly recommend as a clean way to try out the upstart models.
Not sure where deepseek 4 sits
I have about 1KLOC of harness code written by Kimi to work around quirks in Kimi not needed for any other model I've tested, such as infinite toolcall loops and other weirdness.
You can do quite a bit with it and never run into those quirks, or you might hit it every request.
It is very sensitive to "confusing" things about it's environment in a way Sonnet and Opus are not.
Still great value, but they have some way to go.
How do you think the large providers do inference? No single GPU has 1TB plus of memory on board. It’s a cluster of a bunch of gpus.
GPU interconnect speeds are a big bottleneck today for GPU's in AI applications. Data can't move between them fast enough.
The model is fine, Ive switched to it entirely for a personal project, but it's not opus.
And no, you're not running then locally unless you're a millionaire. You still need hundreds of GB (500+++) of VRAM on your graphics card - that's not at a level of consumer electronics.
Sure you can run the quantized models, but then you're at Haiku performance.
Claude becomes near lobotomized at beyond 500,000 tokens. I don't believe much quality code gets outputted at such high token counts, not to mentioned drastically increased cost.
270k isn't massive, but its very usable with compaction. Not every task needs the full context history.
Quantized models do have a quality / accuracy impact, although it is not as drastic as you suggest. There is some good data on this [0].
"These findings confirm that quantization offers large benefits in terms of cost, energy, and performance without sacrificing the integrity of the models. "
One thing that is worth mentioning is quant models are not created equally, they are not always scaling at the same rate. [1] For example not all tensors contribute equally to model accuracy. In practice, the most sensitive parts (such as key attention projections) are often quantized less aggressively to preserve the quality of the inference.
[0] - https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2024/10/17/we-ran-ove...
[1]- https://medium.com/@paul.ilvez/demystifying-llm-quantization...
Check out tensor parallelism
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing
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