The Flat Subscription Problem: Why Agents Break...

The Flat Subscription Problem: Why Agents Break AI Pricing Something broke in AI pricing yesterday, and it wasn't OpenClaw. When Anthropic cut off Claude subscription access to third-party agentic tools, the developer community erupted. A Hacker News thread hit the front page with hundreds of points and hundreds of comments. Most of the anger landed on Anthropic's timing — they launched Claude Code Channels (their first-party Telegram/Discord bridge) two weeks before blocking the third-party alt