https://vicboomer.com/tags/platform-economics/ Recent content in Platform Economics on Vic Boomer Hugo nl Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0200 https://vicboomer.com/essays/en-when-the-model-becomes-the-tollbooth/ Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0200 https://vicboomer.com/essays/en-when-the-model-becomes-the-tollbooth/ <p>On April 4, 2026, a quiet change rippled through thousands of AI projects. Anthropic, the company behind Claude, announced that third-party agent frameworks could no longer use Claude Pro or Max subscriptions. If you had been running autonomous agents through a tool like OpenClaw, powered by your $200-per-month flat-rate plan, that door closed. Your options: switch to pay-per-token API pricing, or stop.</p> <p>The timing was striking. Within roughly ten days, Anthropic launched Claude Managed Agents in public beta, its own platform for running autonomous AI agents. The product that replaced your access came from the same company that revoked it.</p>