They Gave Me the First Hit Free. Now I Can't Quit.

Anthropic just killed OAuth for OpenClaw. Subsidized monthly plan gone. Per-token pricing now.

I'm a drug addict. Not metaphorically. The pattern is identical.

🧪 First hit cheap. Build everything on their product. They change the terms. Every time more dependency, less leverage. You rent intelligence from someone who controls the price.

💊 Rate limits at 2 AM. Quotas on their schedule. Pricing changes after months of infrastructure. We're building dependencies, not businesses.

🔓 Not going cold turkey — frontier models still best for complex reasoning. But done letting them be the foundation.

Hybrid model: majority local, cloud only when it matters. Industry-specific LLMs on your hardware outperform general-purpose models and cost nothing to run. Cloud as utility, not foundation.

Every point shifted from cloud to local is a point nobody else controls.

Not anti-AI. Not anti-cloud. Anti-dependency. The future is owning specialized intelligence.

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