Entries for April 15, 2026
When you build your company's workflows around Claude Cowork, you are betting against local models and owning your infra, and inviting your company to long-term exploitation If I were Anthropic or OpenAI, I would be the most scared of local AI proliferating Let's do the math. A single large big lab subscription costs 200x12=$2400 per year If you want to have both OpenAI and Anthropic, that could cost $2400, $3600, or $4800, based on which combinations of Pro, Max plans you choose An ASUS Ascent GX10 costs $3000, and you can use that for many years. You don't get the same level of coding quality with open models yet, but maybe you want to do something simpler than coding today... There are already many people who started buying GPUs for this reason Now we know big labs are selling some of these plans at a loss. So they will likely get more expensive When you use Claude Cowork or similar, you are locking yourself into being a RENTER. Because once you set up workflows for a company, it takes time to migrate away to something else, even though we have AI to help Infra is sticky, it's how hyperscalers make profit. Think about the difference in amount you pay AWS vs Hetzner. This is B2B SaaS 101. Once you sell to a company, you are in for a long time, especially in Europe So if you build your company's AI workflows around a proprietary product by another company, then you are basically saying "Come exploit me as tolerably as you can in the next 10 years, because it will be too painful for me to switch" It's a great business for Anthropic. And Claude is awesome too! The feedback from friends who use it has been great, it made their lives a lot easier But when you build your company over proprietary AI infra, then you are making sure you will not be an OWNER, and partake in the usual sorrows of being a RENTER from a monopolist, which is exploitation This is not the case when you use open source agent infra. Whereas Anthropic is unlikely to let you use future open models in their future iteration of Claude Cowork, using free and open source frameworks like OpenClaw, Open Agents, etc. lets you drop in replace providers or local hardware if they start to upcharge you Keep this in mind, if you have a business-
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You need to understand one fact about OpenClaw People are biased and incentivized to spread disinformation about OpenClaw. That is because OpenClaw IS NOT PUMPING ANYONE’S BAGS, unlike most other projects Literally every other for-profit agent product is incentivized to trash OpenClaw, BECAUSE OpenClaw is a neutral third party across the industry and geopolitical scene. They MAKE MONEY when OpenClaw loses OpenClaw does not worry about making money for some investors. Its founder @steipete is a successful exited founder. He is motivated by having fun and democratizing AI, literally. That is why he is suddenly so loved by everyone. He cares about PEOPLE, not MONEY “OpenClaw is bloated” -> Since beginning of March, OpenClaw is thinning its core and putting functionality in plugins behind a plugin SDK. Having numerous plugins to choose from does not mean bloat. This was already copied by others and is still a work in progress “OpenClaw is not secure” -> OpenClaw has the most eyeballs and immediately addresses any security advisories as soon as they come. It is the most secure agent, by sheer pressure “OpenClaw is bought by OpenAI” -> Then why is my bank account so empty bro??? All maintainers are literally unpaid and working DOUBLE beside their dayjobs to ship features to you. Do you think VC money can buy that kind of commitment? Once you understand these facts, you’ll like OpenClaw even more. Because OpenClaw is your AI, People’s AI And you can join us too. OpenClaw is the easiest-to-join project in AI right now. You just need to start using it, and start making good contributions. If you are competent, you can become a maintainer, and join the rest of the team making history!