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1:35These automation tools are literally taking over the world, and they're insanely useful. I have one on my side computer monitor right now that is filling out my TurboTaxes as we speak. I gave it all of my financial transactions that I made last year and talked with it to categorize and organize everything, and it is saving me so much work and brain damage. I do have to keep an eye on it, though, to make sure everything is pretty accurate. But I've been impressed so far. This is, it's been amazing, saving me a ton of time. And, you know, we don't have a lot of time with taxes due coming up tomorrow.

2:08So today we want to just talk about a specific story that was getting people a little bit riled up. The creator of OpenClaw, Anthropic banned him from accessing Claude. And of course, it basically ignited a firestorm over on Twitter of people talking about closed source versus open source because open, I mean, right. So he originally created Clawdbot, goes to OpenClaw because of Anthropics cease and desist. OpenAI acquires, Aqua hires him, brings him in and kind of takes over the project. So the problem that we're seeing right now is Clawd put out a new terms of service saying that if you have one of Clawd's max plans or pro plans, they're kind of like their$100,$200 tier.

2:50You used to be able to use it for OpenClaw, but no longer. and the reason is kind of straightforward I don't think it's too controversial if I'm being honest a lot of people get quite riled about this and people probably mad at me but like basically it's super subsidized like you're using 1000 and I've heard up I've heard quotes going up to 15 thousand dollars in tokens a month if you actually max out your plan every day which I personally max out my plan every day so I am getting my absolute money's worth out of my 200 dollars and I mean to be fair they do kind of rinse you because they have an option to upgrade and buy more tokens and I have purchased more tokens on top of that so um you definitely can max it out but what they won't let you do is use that same plan to run your open claw because technically now it's their competitor it's open ai um and uh a lot of people are kind of mad about this because they're like look you only get the subsidized tokens if you're in their platform well duh they're subsidized in my opinion um but yeah a lot of people are upset about this and banning the creator of Open Claw, while it was kind of like, it's sort of like a glitch, to be honest.

3:51Anyways, I got a lot of people upset. I want to go into all this. There's so much drama I want to dive into. Before I do, I completely forgot we have to give a huge shout out guys are if you haven't left a review on this podcast already, we have 95 reviews on Apple, we only need five more to hit 100. This is like the this is the one thing if you have if you got any value out of the show over the years or if you're a new listener, it would help so much if you could leave a review. We would love to hit 100 reviews. We're so close, 95. We can taste it. If you could help us get the last five reviews over on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, wherever you listen to your podcast, that would be amazing.

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5:06Okay, let's talk about what Jamie, I'd love to just kick this over to you because I've talked too long here. What are your thoughts on the OpenClaw creator ban? Yeah, so Peter Steinberger posted on X that he said, yeah, folks, it's going to be harder in the future to ensure OpenClaw still works with anthropic models. Then he posted a screenshot from Claude. It says, hello, an internal investigation of suspicious signals associated with your account indicates a violation of our usage policy. As a result, we have revoked your access to Claude. So, and then, you know, so anyways, he's kind of, I think he's stirring the pot a little bit.

5:42First of all, if he actually is now employed by OpenAI and working heavily with them, why is he using Claude? I don't know if that's my first question. But secondly, you know, I think there's been, like Jaden said, there's been a lot of controversy around this decision of Anthropik to kind of throttle or not allow people to use OpenClaw with their Claw because of the token usage. And basically people are, you know, having this thing run 24-7, doing all kinds of things. A lot of them, I'm guessing, are kind of AI slop as well. They're not really actually... I think people just want to see what OpenClaw can do and then post about it on the internet.

6:30That's my theory. Anyways, I think Anthropoc is probably losing money because of this. And so they're kind of cracking down on it. So Peter Steinberger was banned. It said it only happened for a few hours because he said later his account had been reinstated. So like you said, it might have been just a glitch or something. But either way, kind of an interesting story considering all that's been going on recently. I also say like with this whole thing getting reinstated as well, usually when you're a very high-profile person that has been involved in a lot of high-profile stuff, when you post about this, someone at Anthropik gets their job to go and reinstate your account.

7:13So that's why I got reinstated. If it was just a random person, I don't think it would have happened. What people were asking him about, because I thought he was using one of his subsidized accounts, I think it was literally just his API. So maybe it was a little sketchier and more nefarious than we think. It seems like he was just kind of regularly using the API like he should be, like it was inside of their terms and it got banned. Someone said, I hope you were making autonomous weapons or something like that. He said he was making really sharp claws. um someone said were you using clod to make open claw better or just using it for testing he said we constantly run e to e tests to ensure harnesses harness changes don't break with most common models that's all my org and my key um so i mean your to your question jamie of like why he was even using anthropic when he works at opening eye since open claw does work with any model he was apparently just testing out switching i don't know seems a little seems a little suspicious, but we'll go with the story.

8:09Then this is, I guess, the solution. Someone said, why not use a local adapter that uses CLI in the background? They won't be able to tell at all. You'll have to change up the payload a bit, but Paperclip has been chugging along fine doing this. And he said, we do that. Now, do I understand? I'm sure if you're a developer, you think I'm dumb, but do I understand what setting up a local adapter that uses CLI in the background is? No. Why did I talk about it on the podcast? Because if you run into this situation, copy and paste that comment and tell Claude Code to set it up for you or Claude Cowork and it will.

8:40This is like literally my absolute favorite thing. And I'm sure I'm super annoying to many developers. With Claude Cowork, because it can take control of your screen and just do things, and I'm sure there's ways to do this with OpenClaw, but it's not the one that I'm the most familiar with because I'm not quite as much of a power user, I guess I would say. But literally any technical thing that you see on Twitter or online where it's explained how to do something technical, Sometimes it's articles. Sometimes it's Twitter threads. I copy and paste the whole thing. I give it to Claude Cowork and it just goes and implements it.

9:11So something that I think is amazing about this, and I think it's relevant because we're also seeing, it's not just kind of this band story, but I think this is more of a story about these tools are getting more popular. Microsoft just came out and said that they're working on an OpenClaw-like agent. So we're going to see something like that. We've seen a bunch of other people rolling this out as well. So I think this is, I mean, it's obviously the future. This is an incredibly useful use case. I'd be excited to see if OpenAI can get into this more. I'm not sure why they're not. And I guess hiring him is their way of doing it.

9:43But yeah, OpenAI agents built into ChatGPT was not the thing. And Claude Cowork guys, I'm telling you, it takes control of your computer. It does everything. I have a side tab doing my taxes right now. And I've had it set up like four or five websites and sasses in the last two weeks. Fully built out. It is amazing. Yeah, I mean, I think this year, the year of the agent we talked about and AI being able to actually complete tasks for you is really like the new invention of the Internet. It really is creating a lot of opportunity for both entrepreneurs, developers, you know, lots of people. Before up to this point, I feel like AI, we were talking about the new features that you could do.

10:26But a lot of times you still had to do, there had to be a human involved in completing a task. and now that you can automate all that, it's really opened up a whole new world. And so I think, yeah, the faster that these companies can get on board with making their own agent, the better chance they're going to have. I mean, it's amazing to see the Claude usage go up in the past three months even compared to the past 12 months. It's because of their, you know, co-work essentially. So I think Microsoft is smart to be working on one. Yeah, it is interesting. OpenAI. I mean, I know OpenAI has some agentic features, but yeah, it seems like they haven't really released anything super revolutionary in a while, which unless I'm wrong, correct me.

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