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So it does make sense, even if it's frustrating, because it seems like, you know, the way Anthropic put it was, hey, you know, our infrastructure isn't built for this.

Like, we didn't plan for this.

And yeah, I mean, if you're using OpenClaw with Claude...

Obviously, you basically have an agent on your behalf prompting Claude for you and delivering those prompts back to Claude and saying, no, do this, no, do this.

So it's way more than a human would be able to do.

And Anthropic's point was, hey, we only really built this for humans to be able to prompt Claude right now unless it's for our own products.

Obviously, it's a money grab.

Of course, they don't want a third-party tool doing the same stuff that they want their own.

Right.

Yeah, of course.

So it's like, basically, they just want to keep it like a walled garden, they want it to be a moat.

That's kind of the only advantage that AI companies have right now is just trying to keep their users engaged and keep them on their own platform, build a moat of some sort, because otherwise, like, you know, everyone loves to switch between whatever model is the best that day that week.

So yeah, this is just Anthropic looking to like deepen its moat.

And also,

You know, compute is constrained everywhere, so they don't really want a third-party tool prompting Claude way, way, way, way, way more than a human would be able to.

Exactly.

They want to monetize it if they can.

Yeah, that's a really good question.

And it's something that when I was chatting with economists, they didn't feel that it would be that easy or likely, but they think that one or two LLM providers will come out on top and the rest will have to consolidate.

So yeah, there's a chance for sure.