Episode 205: Vintage Microsoft Evil Shit
We discover we've been violating Anthropic's terms of services for months!
Anthropic prohibits using any of their services to build a "competing product".
Apparently that prohibition applies also to the thousands of developers building AI assistants, coding agents, research assistants, any kind of chat interface - EVEN if you use their API.
Because "competing product" can mean ANYTHING competitive with ANY of Anthropic's product surfaces. (According to our lawyer GPT anyway. Consult your own!)
We cancel our Anthropic subscription and remove all Claude code from our codebase.
OpenAgents@OpenAgentsEpisode 204: DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE Last night Anthropic shut off Claude OAuth access, breaking workflows for thousands of developers. Anthropic has communicated nothing publicly, only private threats and DMCA takedowns. Impacted developers have attempted workarounds, but those workarounds are being actively patched by Anthropic to prevent developers from repairing their workflows. Preventing devs from leaving your walled garden is not about supporting developers, it's about controlling them. Fortunately, we have other options. The response is coming. ANTHROPIC DELENDA EST