alt Hacker NewsIt would’ve happened eventually anyway, but OpenClaw is basically what kickstarted the beginning of the end of token subsidies. It’s a almost begging to be used wastefully. And agents would miss and lose nothing without it. It’s devoid of a reason to exist.
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operatingthetan • yesterday at 9:11 PM
I don't follow the thinking here. If you are using it for coding maybe, but the main use case of openclaw is as a personal assistant. I'm using a $10 a month minimax subscription for it, and I've never used more than 10% usage of a 5 hour window.
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dyauspitr • today at 5:47 AM
I hope not. We need a lot of new data centers. Let the tokens flow like water.
I don't think this is fair (and I say this as someone who doesn't see much a point of OpenClaw). To me it's very obvious that Claude Code itself is the beginning of the end of token subsidies.
When Claude Code was released, there was a community leaderboard where people competed who could waste the most tokens. Let that sinks.
I know people, especially people who write code, like to blame "the other clueless people" for ruining their cheap token plan. But we're not stuck in the traffic. We're the traffic.