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Re: Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"

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Post by bdangubic »

margalabargala wrote: post #317
schubidubiduba wrote: post #284

Earlier quoted context omitted.

TOS are not laws. They often conflict with actual laws, and are then void. So you can't just say "It's in the TOS", you do have to look at actual laws and whether they may be violated (Because it is anticompetitive or whatever else)

Sorry, are you claiming that it's illegal (in the US, where Anthropic operates) for Anthropic to decline to operate on a repo that contains commits relating to OpenClaw? 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.

if I had a penny for every time I read on HN that should either "is" or "should be" illegal when it both isn't and shouldn't be... I'd be a very rich man :)

Re: Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"

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Post by shimman »

whateveracct wrote: post #53
jp57 wrote: post #14

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I saw a talk by Boris where he said, basically that Claude codes itself now. They have it automatically writing features and reviewing PRs, apparently. I suspect that much of the code has never been seen by human eyes within Anthropic.

lol so they aren't even good at using Claude

These are people that lucked into working at FAANG 10 years ago and been riding the coattails since. Highly incompetent people dictating how we should all work.

Re: Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"

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Post by jmward01 »

So it seems that Anthropic has a hidden list of special words that redirect billing without warning or disclosure. And when this is pointed out as a billing error they say they won't refund until it gets the HN treatment. If they can/will bill you differently based on actual use then it seems like how they determine that use is important to disclose right?

Re: Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"

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Post by [deleted] »

jmward01 wrote: post #403

So it seems that Anthropic has a hidden list of special words that redirect billing without warning or disclosure. And when this is pointed out as a billing error they say they won't refund until it gets the HN treatment. If they can/will bill you differently based on actual use then it seems like how they determine that use is important to disclose right?

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Re: Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"

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Post by shortcord »

frizlab wrote: post #359
petercooper wrote: post #232

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I wonder if projects which are anti-AI could place such identifiers surreptitiously into docs or commits as a way to sabotage people using Claude Code. Your project isn't going to get many AI PRs if just cloning your project wiped out their quota.

Currently I do this: ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86 No clue if this is useful. https://github.com/SublimeText/Modelines/blob/master/Claude....

What is this supposed to do?

Re: Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"

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Post by matheusmoreira »

maxbond wrote: post #71

This is very concerning. Their heavy handed tactics haven't impacted me personally yet but I am increasingly nervous and casting about for viable egress paths if I need to flee Claude Code. I really hope they pump the breaks and thoroughly reorient themselves. They are under a lot of competing pressures and probably can't make a decision that won't upset a lot of people (in order to balance growth and capacity etc),…

Same here. I'm not even using OpenClaw myself and it's starting to make me nervous. Every week it's a new problem, and then Anthropic deals with it by doing something so stupid and controversial it becomes news. It's really tiresome.

Re: Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"

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Post by reaperducer »

colechristensen wrote: post #269
rohansood15 wrote: post #206

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I am engineer by trade. If I pushed an update which wrongly busted my customer's usage limits at a trillion dollar company, I would expect to get fired. Alongside my EM.

This is not how any engineering workplace anywhere operates.

This is not how any engineering workplace anywhere operates.

Anywhere inside your bubble. The world is a big place.

Re: Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"

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Post by frizlab »

shortcord wrote: post #405
frizlab wrote: post #359

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Currently I do this: ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86 No clue if this is useful. https://github.com/SublimeText/Modelines/blob/master/Claude....

What is this supposed to do?

Claude is supposed to auto-denial service on that[0]. I have not tested it, and in particular I have no idea if it stops ingestion…

[0] https://hackingthe.cloud/ai-llm/exploitation/claude_magic_st...

Re: Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"

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Post by Neywiny »

shortcord wrote: post #405
frizlab wrote: post #359

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Currently I do this: ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86 No clue if this is useful. https://github.com/SublimeText/Modelines/blob/master/Claude....

What is this supposed to do?

Apparently makes it halt. Unknown if it catches fire.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1qibtgs/does_appl...

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