Honestly, this isn't a change really from how anthropic has operated for a long, long time. They did the same with OpenCode, pi, etc. There isn't anything that can stop you from using the SDK, however.

Wonder if they tested that with actual code.

Anthropic is losing a ton of goodwill by not being more honest about their constraints. They've been buckling under load for months, and instead of doing the most honest thing (keep weekly usage limits same, make 5 hour usage limits have surge pricing where the usage-cost of X tokens is scaled based on dynamic load), they're doing a lot of hacky things to try to get a similar effect. I suspect they feel the optics of being honest would be too bad, so instead it's a slow bleed where they piss off users one by one

This is what being banned in the age of LLMs will look like.

I asked claude if it thought openclaw was better. It said it didn't know what openclaw was.

I am reminded of user-agent sniffing and the idiocy that created. One would hope that this leads to less self-identifying overall. At this point it looks less like a cat-and-mouse game but more like a cat-and-cat game, but all the cats are equally retarded. I suppose it makes for good entertainment for the rest of us who don't need to use, and now have another reason not to start using, all this AI stuff.

possibly related, it errors if my working directory is a checkout of OpenCode. i was using CC to work on some patches for OC and had to work in a parent directory and then tell Claude to work on the files inside the "opencode" folder.

A friendly reminder to any Claude subscribers, that you were probably auto-opted-in to "Extra Usage". You can disable it on the "Usage" page [0] before getting a bill for "extra" usage.

0: https://claude.ai/settings/usage

We are going to need agent neutrality laws soon.