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Claude Code restrictions backlash

April 3, 2026Theo - t3.gg, Chubby, Dan

Theo says Claude Code became unusable for system fixes and even errors when analyzing its own source, blaming attempts to block OpenClaw.

Claude Code being closed source is the biggest bag fumble in the AI era.
If CC was on Github, these things would be trivial to identify and fix.
Instead we're stuck reverse engineering their incompetence.
Anthropic says hitting rate limits so fast in Claude Code is your fault.
do they think we all just subscribed this week?!
All users are saying they're reaching their rate limits faster than before.
we found nothing, but hey, why not use Sonnet instead of Opus because Opus uses about twice the bandwidth?
Anthropic investigated and said: we found nothing
why not use Sonnet instead of Opus because Opus uses about twice the bandwidth?
I almost exclusively use Claude Code for fixing things on my system and now it's refusing to do that?
They’re trying so hard to kill OpenClaw that they made Claude Code unusable.
Claude Code now throws an error if you use it to try and analyze the Claude Code source
Theo - t3.gg
Chubby
Dan
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