This is an Anthropic fumble and Clawdbot could have been theirs a long time ago instead of going to OpenAI who cleverly outdone them on marketing this fumble.
Anthropic just made themselves look incredibly bad with the way they handled that when they sent a cease and desist to OpenClaw which that back-fired right in their faces.
Exactly the same as the OpenCode drama, at this point OpenAI are just getting free customers from common sense.
Anthropic seem oddly focused on their moat being the app, rather than the underlying intelligence and model. Which is odd when Claude Claude is no better than all the other harnesses.
I have a suspicion that the reason they’re using react, and the reason they’re trying to keep people using Claude code instead of other tools is because it gives them additional data to train on.
It's even simpler than that. They keep trying to get people using Claude code because that's their vendor lock in. That's their business model. They don't want to become a commodity, they want you to use Claude Code. I can't blame them either.
I thought Pete mentioned on lex's podcast that anthropic did not send a cease and desist. They kindly asked him to remove all references .to Clawd from the project
An employee told him they need to rename ASAP or lawyers will get involved. Is that much different from a C&D? Even if he received a formal C&D, he could have done the exact same thing (rename) and be fine.
It's a meme project. I'm not a CEO fanboy but Open
AI leadership chases hype while Anthropoc's leadership seems more focused on useful things. So the acquisition makes sense.
Anthropic just made themselves look incredibly bad with the way they handled that when they sent a cease and desist to OpenClaw which that back-fired right in their faces.
Mistakes have been made.