Anthropic Are Pissing People Off (Again)

There's been some major clawed code policy updates from Anthropic which has affected our old boy open claw mostly affected our old boy open claw and I think it this has been brought about by our old friend openclaw. Command AI using OOTH tokens obtained through clawed free pro and max accounts in any product tool or service including the agent SDK is not permitted is not permitted. Now Tar here is is is confirming that nothing is changing about how you can use the agent SDK and max subscriptions. It's it's getting more and more confusing. And he uh he go here we want to encourage local development experimentation with the agent SDK and Claude P which is a way of prompting Claude from the command mine outside of go outside of claw code. The point is if we come to this thing here, free pro and max plans is intended exclusively for clawed code and claude AI. So their subscriptions because they're a huge discount on you know um the API usage. So they are only intended for claw code and clawed AI and presumably clawed co-work but they've they need to clear that up in any other products all servers including the ed SDK is not permitted and constitutes as consumer uh is against their TOC's but this basically means that what what a route to using open claw is you could use it through your claw code max plan which we spoke about at the beginning with with that was a whole Peter's naming of Claudebot and all the rest of it, you just can't use it. And I actually started noticing this. I was getting uh API blocking and things like that and I didn't really know what it was, but just so happens that I was interested in moving on to Miniax, which I've got a which I literally just released a video during the stream uh talking you through how you can install Miniax subscription with OpenClaw. And I'm getting really good results with Miniax to be honest. Um I'm not into the personality. You're into the personality, right? Open. No, I'm I'm I'm fine with it being like short and just, you know, just do it. Yeah, you can you can prompt all this in. You can prompt all this into your soul.md and this and that, but the out the box personality is something people do enjoy from Claude. I don't care. I just wanted to get the [ __ ] job done, you know. Yeah. Um, so yeah, I've set up Miniax. I paid 10 bucks a month for my Miniax plan. I'm going to see how that scales up. But, um, if you want to learn how to set that up, I've got a video on my channel, which my link is there. [music] Um but this is this is yeah but the bigger question here the bigger conversation that's happening here is anthropic are really creating a lot of enemies by creating this wall garden approach this applelike approach to all their tools their services [music] and again go to that conversation with Lex Freriedman Peter Steinberger says that in this in this world I mean I understand both sides of the conversation as I normally tend to always do. But in this in this time of uncertainty and discovery and curiosity when you've got anthropic really locking things down and not open sourcing their software, DMCAing open code and and this all these companies and Claudebot. Yeah. They're creating enemies for themselves and and creating an ecosystem of of secrecy and privacy. And I think that's rubbing people up the wrong way. I hate capitalism, right? But I also see that this is this is the way it needs to be done. They are on track for becoming a profitable company before open AI. Um, so there's obviously method to the madness, but I can't you can't deny that this is rubbing people up the wrong way. And this is just another example of them being like no cuz all of the other accounts open AAI you can use open AI's codeex plan with uh open claw with open code you can you can use miniax obviously GLM all of the they they don't care about how they they're getting money at the end of the day but it's just such a huge discount from the API usage the API pricing is not as expensive as anthropic so Who knows? Yeah. Um they are destroying their relationship with developers which is I don't know it sounds very stupid. It is very stupid because developers love uh cloud code and anthropic is destroying this relationship. It's it's really stupid uh what they are doing and I don't understand why are they being this harsh on people for doing this. um are are people like using way too much of the you know the subscriptions because the subscription the 200 bucks gets you roughly around like $3,000 uh worth of API. So you pay 200 but the actual like if you use it to its limit um it's like like 3K which is crazy. That's why like it's so much more worth to use like the 200 bucks subscription compared to using something like cursor. And it's quite unfair to cursor because cursor has to pay the API cost. But you when you don't use um anthropic models through cursor when you use them directly you are paying them like much less. and they are trying to lock this down as much as they can and I I'm not sure because people are abusing it or it's just that they are they're trying to be Apple and it doesn't make sense to be Apple in this you know in this industry like AI with you see like you can just change whatever tool that you use uh just just like that it's so easy to switch they can't build walls. That's that's my point. Like you cannot build walls with AI with because the nature of the product doesn't allow you. I'm going to mention web flow, right? Cuz this is the thing that I really dislike or not dislike, that's the wrong word because there are benefits to web flow encapsulating you in their wall garden. However, the internet and web technologies are based on open open standards and cross-pollination and interoperability which these wall garden approaches just don't don't work with. Right. I I understand that they need to start somewhere. Um and maybe well I'll finish what I was going to say. I it could be a it could be a question of um subsidization because a lot of people pay those 200 those $100 plans and don't actually use the tokens that um they offer you. Open code makes damn sure you use those tokens because it's using them without your prompt. You're not do you know it's just churning away. It's doing stuff and it's quite token hungry on top of that. So they're they're making less profit cuz people are actually using up their $200 $100 a month plan. So it could also be that. But yeah, back to the back to the web flow thing like it helps when you and Replet is also another example. It helps especially non- techy people to come in and just know that their database is being taken care of, their hosting's being taken care of, domain names, all this sort of stuff. The tool itself, they know they can just log into one platform and use it. that's great. But when you start to need more from it, it doesn't scale that well. It doesn't scale well when you can't use a different or system or connect to a different database because they're just so locked down, you know. And I know we're talking about Anthropic and their policies here, but it may very well extend there. They might be locking it down just to learn, you know. They might just be like, "Let's just let's just keep keep a lid on things. Let's see how things play out." And and you never know. Their their master plan might be to open up everything. But they're just they're very cautious company. So, it could we we could see a complete open openness when when things start to play out, when they've reached profitability, when they've when we figured all this [ __ ] out. But I don't know. I don't know. This is part of a larger conversation on my show, Command AI, which we stream live every single week. We discuss the news and all things related to AI in the world of design and web. Catch us next week and join in the banter.