alt Hacker Newsand they’ve made it clear that building products around claude -p is disallowed
Imagine not being able to connect services together or compose building-blocks to do what you want. This is absolute insanity that runs counter to decades of computing progress and interoperability (including Unix philosophy); and I'm saying this as someone who doesn't even care for using AI.
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it's trivial to use tmux. But it does feels like openclaw is used (and increasingly developed) by people who never heard of it.
Except it's not counter to history for SaaS services. Many will ban unauthentic usage from non-human clients. Getting banned from a SaaS service for boting is nothing new
They aren’t stopping anyone from using claude -p, they are just charging for that usage.
You absolutely can, just pay for their API usage. The subscriptions are deeply discounted if you use your full quota compared to the API.
But you can still integrate this (claude -p) into your local workflows when you basically want to pipe pipe stuff to Claude for inference