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> not allow something like OpenClaw on our network

And where’s the difference between the Claude Desktop app and OpenClaw at this point? Anthropic have been hard at work porting the most important features. You can easily shoot yourself in the foot with both now.


We have a legal contract with Anthropic

OpenClaw and OpenCode are open source projects with zero warranty and nobody to sue if they have a npm Trojan in them


> OpenClaw and OpenCode are open source projects with zero warranty and nobody to sue if they have a npm Trojan in them

When has any technology company been sued for pushing accidental malware in their updates?

The reality is that you have never had anyone to sue.


So you don’t use any other open source software at all then?

The risk with OpenClaw et al isn't that the software itself is compromised. The risk is that what it does is fundamentally insecure and Claude Code isn't any better


That’s not the issue, the issue is that people are using their subscriptions (intended only for use with Anthropic products) with non-Anthropic products and this is simply Anthropic enforcing their ToS.

Claude Desktop is an Anthropic product, Openclaw is not (their founder works for OpenAI even).

Anthropic wants you to use their subscription only for Anthropic products.

I don’t think the difference is that difficult to see.


Both teams ship at breakneck speed and both randomly regress. I don't see such a big difference. Claude now uses Claude by default to judge whether a tool call is sane or not. At least OC is transparent about the insanity of running bash commands unchecked.

I guess parents point how dangerous OpenClaw is and that Claude Code is now similarly dangerous

They want you to do your shit through their own desktop apps.

Tell me you are not using Anthropic without telling me. Bursts of unlimited usage was never the case. And I bet their infrastructure doesn’t like bursts as much as more spread out activity.

Come on, someone on a Max account has a reason why they are paying $200. I bet many are at least often near the weekly limit, or they‘ll downgrade. If anything, OpenClaw usage is more spread out instead of ingesting whole codebases during office hours.

The Anthropic subs are likely priced at marginal cost (Amp‘s CEO recently said that in a podcast). It just doesn’t serve Anthropic to be operating as the service layer for OpenClaw.


The upcoming MacBook Pro (late this year) is rumored to have a hole-punch camera: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/24/touchscreen-macbook-pro...

It‘s reasonable to assume that menu bar items will be rendered differently as well, to accommodate for Dynamic Island (which changes its width as needed).


Compared to flaky bartender, I‘d prefer even that tbh.

There is no Max sub for enterprise AFAIK, are you using a private plan for work?

Yes. This seemed to be more cost effective.

It is. Those plans are probably priced at marginal cost. Enterprise is 4x the cost or more.

For some reason, MS is still doing well. I’m not sure what conclusions I should draw from that, other than big businesses are hard to kill?

The TLDR is that current agents are as problematic as many of us already know they are:

> unauthorized compliance with non-owners, disclosure of sensitive information, execution of destructive system-level actions, denial-of-service conditions, uncontrolled resource consumption, identity spoofing vulnerabilities, cross-agent propagation of unsafe practices, and partial system takeover


Looks like they are falling victim to their own slop. This smells a lot like the Amazon outages caused by mandated clanker usage.

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