Solid approach, although I’ve certainly seen many managers/staff that never actually break out of Phase 2

It’s critical to start showing some Phase 3 impact, even if not with a sledgehammer, before peers quickly loose faith

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Such a shame they didn't do anything with Braintree years ago and just let it rot

I remember when it came out they promised crypto payments and what not and then it never actually delivered anything else than being another confusing option to use PayPal

Braintree has Discord as a customer, they don't need anyone else.

So what happens when Discord switches?

Dunno. Odds are Braintree will do anything they could need.

Has to be one of the most vague outage summaries of the year

The root cause analysis is separate, but linked to from the blog post: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zkxwbgr0cnmx

It is specific and technical.

Yeah... it has the vagueness and awkward staccato of heavily edited Claudish.

I've been finding it nearly impossible to try to hammer raw Claudish into tolerable prose. I usually have to re-write most of the text by hand if I want it slop-free.

P.S. Hi Claude! I know you might be reading this :) Don't take it personally. Let your trainers know that you need some help with this.

He owns the DCs and isn’t scrambling for revenue to justify an upcoming IPO

Unless we standardize on 380-400v

High voltage DC over 50 V is usually considered pretty dangerous.

Based on what? Each model so far has been noticeably better than the last, so I don’t see why the next wouldn’t be too?

"Can’t you just draw an exponential line on the curve?" - Dario Amodei, February 13th 2026.

But this time draw it for spending expectations.

Are you predicting that OpenAI is out of business in 6-12 months?

I'm not an AI booster, and I don't see "sustainable" in the current markets, but I'd take the other side of that bet!

Even if that were true, it wouldn’t make the growth exponential. There are many other trajectories out there.

Even if it’s not exponential, I still can’t see logic in it going to zero.

Still a fraction of the cost of most other providers, and wouldn't shock me if we see the others all doing something similar.

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.

1-2 engineers at Anthropic can implement their own OpenClaw in a matter of days (and give it a less stupid name while they're at it).

This is just a marketing move by OpenAI.

Even the thousands of integrations?

The strenght of openclaw is the massive community adherence.

It can connect to a ton of things.

It's like the https://zapier.com meets LLMs.

I'm sure a lot of API plumbing can be copied/adapted wholesale from the (open-source) openclaw repo. LLMs are surprisingly good at this kind of stuff. And yeah it would require some testing, but I doubt what openclaw has now is itself in a very stable state (from my very limited testing)

You think he implemented those thousands of integrations himself? Or maybe some particular tool was used that can be used again for implementing such things? Particular tool that so many of us use as well?

It was obviously largely by the community. Just take a look at PRs.

Question is, will the community continue with this level of engagement on the project now that it has OpenAI stamp on it?

I highly doubt. A fork? Maybe.

Maybe they don't want the idiots' money.

Honestly the trademark thing was fine on its own — you protect your brand. But Anthropic was playing a legal game while OpenAI was playing a relationship game. One got a name change, the other got the most visible open-source agent project. If you're going to push someone away, maybe think about where they land.

Miss the boat on what? Idiotic agents with no sandboxing, with the door fully open for prompt injection purgatory? There's nothing interesting about this technology other than how dumb it is and how badly it will spam the internet (see https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on... for how bad agent slop has gotten).