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Fun fact - if you have a recent commit that mentions OpenClaw in a json blob, Claude Code will either refuse your request or bill you extra money. This is an empty repo, I'm just calling Claude Code directly. Insanity.

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> “Local first” > “On device” > tested on a DGX Spark, a $5000 dedicated AI supercomputer that has no support for traditional software I hate that these terms don’t mean anything anymore.

I get why they’re doing it though. I had a brand decline working with me because “you only get 100,000 views, this other guy is half your price and gets 70,000 views” The “other guy” was getting those views on X, where “views” count API responds with your post ID.

The cost to performance chart is the most interesting. 3.5 Flash is "more expensive" and "dumber" than gpt-5.5 on medium gpt-5.5-medium: 22m tokens, $1,199, 57 points gemini-3.5-flash: 73m tokens, $1,522, 55 points

Gemini 3.5 Flash is a really interesting release. It's super fast and surprisingly smart. It's also more expensive (3x more per token) and super token hungry. The result - it costs 2x more to run than Gemini 3.1 Pro on similar tasks. It's more expensive than GPT-5.5 Medium.

If you use any of the following with your Claude sub, your usage must got cut by 25x: - T3 Code - Conductor - zed - jean - “Claude -p” in your ci - scripts to call Claude code from other tools They’re disguising this as “free credits”. Don’t fall for it.

I don’t love how hard they are trying to spin this as a win. It’s a direct downgrade for us. Use the crappy desktop app from Claude? $5k+ in subsidized tokens. Use T3 Code to programmatically call Claude? $200 then you get billed.

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