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

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Make sure you check your extra usage. I thought the same but then noticed that single prompt (exactly as posted) cost $0.20 of extra usage.

It can't be legal that they randomly charge extra usage with no user consent.

US govt decided to stop applying laws to AI companies

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

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It also sounds extremely counterproductive to try and sabotage your competition by.. driving your customers away? I have no love for these companies but it's a silly conclusion to jump to.

They don't want customers that make them bleed more money than they're supposed to.

Then just... charge everyone in same way ? The problem is entirely caused by their ass-backwards billing methods

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

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It's fascinating to see all these bugs in Claude Code - HERMES.md, this OpenClaw issue, the recent thinking-message pruning and cache-skipping bugs. 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, wh…

Has any of this stuff hurt their valuation? Then who says it isn't working?

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

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At least we can assume that Anthropic eats their own dog food. They use Claude to develop their software.

You say that like it's a gotcha. I think the fact that they reached 2B/mo in revenue by dogfooding cc is all the proof that one needs that this thing actually works. In fact it works so well that more people want it than they can serve. For months now they've been having issues when EU and US tz are both online at the same time.

you could have more successful company if you took VC money and paid the users directly. Revenue doesn't matter if company is in the red

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

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do they literally just have a regex match for all of their competitor harnesses?

nah, it's probably worse: it could be some system prompt for their models...

it's probably regex, just to not burn money on checking

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

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Ok I am usually defending Anthropic, but it seems like this OpenClaw and Hermes ban was implemented incredibly poorly; it looks like a simple regex. Didn’t they think about “we need to make sure Claude Code is never banned” ? Could have been as easy as including some Claude Code specific prompting traits (tools, system prompt, whatever) in there and automatically whitelisting it. Is it foolproof? No. Will it avoid ba…

Why would you defend Anthropic at this point after all their antics and their behaviour over the past 6 months? They do not care about us.

LLM-induced brain damage

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

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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.

There is no "if". They could. 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'…

Stuff it in an AGENTS.md to pretend you're AI-native ;)

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

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Claude.ai is now at a 98.85% uptime. There's been so many frustrations with Claude / Anthropic lately (very heavy usage limits, wrong A / B testing, etc.). 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 nonet…

> Claude.ai is now at a 98.85% uptime. So, at least better than GitHub, right? :)

Depends on how you count downtime, since Anthropic has much fewer different services.

But well, their ones are way harder to run.

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