The HN thread claimed Claude Code blocked or redirected billing when OpenClaw appeared in Git history. I built a public repo, a reproducible harness, and ran the matrix. On Claude Code 2.1.126, I did not reproduce the block.
CAPTCHAs were born to prove you're human. Now my agents need to prove they're bots just to function. I measured the retries, the overhead, the real friction. The numbers are ugly.
I used Claude Code for weeks without setting up a single routine. Assumed it was overhead for people with too much free time. Then a post hit 611 points on HN and I couldn't look away anymore. Here's what changed — and why the resistance was entirely mine.
32 years in the dev trenches. Here I write what I learned, what I broke, and what nobody tells you in the tutorials.
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