Transcription: OpenAgents Episode 204 - DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE

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[00:00] Christopher David: There's a principle in open source software called "Don't Break User Space." It means changes to the system must not break existing user programs, scripts or workflows. In short, once something works for users, it should keep working. Now of course Anthropic is not an open source company, not in the least, but overnight...

[00:25] Christopher David: Turning off access,

[00:27] Christopher David: third-party OAuth access,

[00:29] Christopher David: for thousands of developers,

[00:31] Christopher David: breaking user space for thousands of developers,

[00:35] Christopher David: this needs a real response. Now, plenty of amazing pushback on my Twitter feed here.

[00:48] Christopher David: If this really is predatory by Claude, what a colossal fuck-up from Prime.

[00:54] Christopher David: GM to everyone doing the same thing today.

[00:57] Christopher David: Cloning Claude code and capturing the data so we don't have to be dependent on them.

[01:01] Christopher David: This was lame is great way to kill a lot of goodwill for your brand. Uh let's see what else.

[01:11] Christopher David: Canceling my Macs plan. Never been more bullish on open source. Claude code is unusable.

[01:19] Christopher David: Anthropogenic really knows how to level up competitors.

[01:23] Christopher David: Could someone please release something competitive to Claude so we don't end up in a monopolized market?

[01:31] Christopher David: Yeah.

[01:33] Christopher David: I think we'll formally introduce our solution to this in the next video. We were building toward this anyways.

[01:40] Christopher David: Yeah,

[01:41] Christopher David: you're throwing out DMCA takedowns, you're throwing, you know, limitations to developers with no communication.

[01:50] Christopher David: Ten hours have gone by, now a single piece of communication from Anthologic. It wasn't a mistake. They're clearly aware that developers are using it like this. Um...

[02:01] Christopher David: Don't break user space.

[02:04] Christopher David: And uh some people were saying, oh well you can just get around the limitation.

[02:08] Christopher David: Here's how you get around it.

[02:11] Christopher David: Hahaha.

[02:12] Christopher David: Boom, patched. Still doesn't work, okay? This wasn't a fluke on their part.

[02:19] Christopher David: They know you're trying to get around it.

[02:22] Christopher David: They want to lock you into their walled garden.

[02:26] Christopher David: That's not how we do business here.

[02:30] Christopher David: So you'll, let's do the voice command and see if this works.

[02:33] Christopher David: So you'll see our response to this in a few hours.

[02:41] Christopher David: Claude.

[02:43] Christopher David: See you soon.