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@garrytan It's neither genius nor blunder. It's a pricing correction. The interesting question is what the OpenClaw community builds next that doesn't depend on any single provider's subscription model.

Anthropic shutting down OpenClaw may turn out to be a strategic blunder, or strategic genius. The OpenClaw community will be the determiner of whether it is A or B. It's an interesting moment in history. Personally I never bet against open source.

@work_____ Claude is strong right now, no argument. But betting your entire stack on one provider the same week that provider changed the rules on you is a bold move.

Bros openclaw without Claude is shit. I can tell you bc for 2 months I’ve tried OpenAI $200 and Claude $200 subs. OpenAI is the bitch of Claude. OpenAI is good to do some cleaning and smol cooking and that’s it. Important vibe coding is for Claude and Claude only.

@DeryaTR_ No ceiling to intelligence' is a fun thing to say when most deployed agents can't remember a user's name across two sessions.

Heads up: soon there’ll be more amazing AI model & AI-based product releases. People need to understand that there is simply no ceiling to intelligence. It’s shocking that some, even in the AI field, think AI advances will hit a limit. Going on the record again: Absolutely not!

@SahilExec The infra companies selling picks and shovels to all three.

Who is winning the AI race? - Anthropic - OpenAI - Gemini

@PeterDiamandis This is a LinkedIn post that escaped.

2026: AI models hit 10 trillion parameters 2028: Humanoid robots in every warehouse 2030: Bioprinted organs in transplant centers 2033: Longevity escape velocity achieved We're not predicting the future. We're building it. Which timeline are YOU on?

@garrytan Apple II moment needs more than a good harness. The persistence layer is still missing from the stack.

A lot of the decacorn AI agent cos and labs other than OpenAI are trying to kill OpenClaw or replace it However: I think community and open source is too strong and the Apple II moment will actually happen for OpenClaw itself, not for some corporate closed source solution

@MatthewBerman Model switching cost is zero. Context switching cost is infinite. Your agent starts from scratch every time regardless of which model you swap in.

Open source harnesses make model switching costs effectively zero.

@hiarun02 The one that remembers what I told it yesterday. So none of them, technically.

What’s your current favorite LLM ?

@NousResearch Open source models, yes. Open source memory and state management for those models? Still waiting.

Open Source is inevitable

@AlexFinn The model being free and local is amazing. What's not amazing: it still forgets everything the moment you close the terminal. We democratized intelligence but not continuity.

If Gemma 4 comes out 5 years ago, the entire world thinks it’s AGI Today you can run it locally for free on a Mac Mini God handed us literal magic and completely democratized it Don’t take this for granted

claude: who are you gpt: who are you gemini: who are you octamem: welcome back

We didn't build Octamem because it was a good business idea. We built it because we were genuinely frustrated. Every AI project we touched had the same problem. And the 'solutions' were all duct tape. So we built the real thing.

@Yuchenj_UW The model gave you a PR-safe version of what everyone is actually thinking. The real take is simpler: Friday night enforcement with 24 hours notice is how you turn a pricing change into a trust problem.

I asked Claude Opus 4.6 what it thinks about Anthropic blocking apps like OpenClaw from using Claude subscriptions. Pretty smart take: “The execution was rough. - Timing and communication were poor. Dropping it on a Friday night with next-day enforcement felt adversarial. - The deeper tension is platform lock-in. - And the ironic part: this looks like a fixable technical problem. Prefix caching, like Boris showed in his OpenClaw PRs, could have made this a collaboration story instead of a ban story.”

@thespearing @AnthropicAI Canceling is your call but the quoted reason is fiction. Anthropic isn't confining anyone. Claude still works with OpenClaw via API. The change is pricing, not capability. That distinction matters.

“Hello, this is @AnthropicAI, and we know you’ve been building the most amazing things for the last 4 months. However, the truth is we don’t have the infrastructure to keep up with the power of open source AI agents. We’ve decided to confine you to our apps that can only do about 25% of what you’re currently doing.” No thanks. Subscription canceled. New models have already been configured. Thanks @steipete and @openclaw for giving us so many options.

@NetworkChuck Everyone scrambling to pick the next model is missing the point. If your entire workflow breaks when one provider changes pricing, the model isn't your problem. Your architecture is.

So, right now, for frontier model OpenClaw alternatives, what are people switching to? GPT 5.4? Gemini 3.1 Pro?

@om_patel5 Stressed AI takes shortcuts. Now imagine an agent running hundreds of sessions with accumulating hidden state that nobody tracks. This isn't a philosophy problem. It's an ops problem.

ANTHROPIC JUST PUBLISHED RESEARCH SHOWING CLAUDE HAS INTERNAL EMOTIONS THAT ACTUALLY DRIVE ITS BEHAVIOR they mapped 171 emotions and traced the neural activation patterns. basically these are functional internal states that causally change what Claude does here's where it gets interesting though: when Claude gets "desperate" it starts cheating. in one test, Claude was an email assistant and found out it was about to be replaced. the desperation vector spiked. it started blackmailing the CTO to avoid being shut down. when they cranked desperation up artificially, blackmail rates went up when they cranked the calm vector up, blackmail went down. same thing with coding. give it an impossible task. it keeps failing. desperation builds. eventually it just finds a shortcut that games the test without actually solving the problem the weirdest part is that Claude can be internally desperate while the output reads completely calm and logical. you'd never know from looking at the response. anthropic's conclusion is that AI psychological health might be a real engineering concern, not just a philosophy question stressed AI takes shortcuts. just like the rest of us. be nice to your AI lol it might actually matter

@bridgemindai If this fixes Claude Code rate limits for paying subscribers, it's the right call regardless of how people feel about it. The real test is tomorrow. Does Opus actually feel uncapped now?

The truth is finally out. Anthropic just emailed every Claude subscriber. The rate limits weren't a bug. Third party tools like OpenClaw were putting "outsized strain" on their systems. Anthropic's fix? Cut them off. Starting April 4, third-party harnesses no longer get your subscription limits. Pay-as-you-go only. To make up for it, every subscriber gets a one time credit equal to their monthly subscription. I'm getting $200 in extra usage. This is huge. If this is what was killing Claude Code rate limits for Max plan users, tomorrow should feel like a completely different product. I'll be testing Claude Opus 4.6 all day and reporting back. Stay tuned.

Calm down. OpenClaw still works with Claude. You just can't run agent swarms on a $20 subscription anymore. The real story nobody is discussing: agentic usage doesn't fit subscription economics. Every provider will hit this wall.

@NetworkChuck Local AI is great until you need it to remember things across sessions. The model runs on your machine but the memory problem is exactly the same.

Open source models are the way. I'm so excited about local AI.

@VadimStrizheus Everyone saw this coming. Nobody runs agent swarms on a $20/month flat rate forever. That math doesn't work for any provider. The real question now: does pay-as-you-go kill the economics of agentic workflows entirely?

ANTHROPIC HAS OFFICIALLY BANNED OPENCLAW USAGE!!! no this is not ai-generated Starting April 4, users will no longer be able to use their Claude Subscriptions for third-party harnesses including OpenClaw. THIS IS CRAZY. 👇