Here’s your monthly reminder that you shouldn’t be prompting coding agents anymore. You should be designing loops that prompt your agents.

Pull requests disappeared on GitHub for many (all?) users. This is just the latest outage on a platform where reliability has been beyond unacceptable the last few months. A fair question: at what point would customers move? How much pain is too much? And where do they move?

Built clawsweeper, which runs 50 codex in parallel around the clock, scans issues/prs deep and closes what is already implemented or what makes no sense. Closed around 4000 issues today, a few thousand are in the pipeline. (rate limits are rough) github.com/openclaw/clawswee…

Platform teams aren’t overhead, they’re what keeps your AI engineering from turning into chaos durbon.medium.com/platform-t…

Lots of people asking what’s so good about the new codex desktop computer use. Here’s 5 things that come to mind 1. operate Mac Apps without a great API: Slack, Google Sheets, Notes, IMessage without installing separate plugins. It instantly transforms all your apps into tools 2. If you need to operate your browser more visually it works really smoothly and fast (good for sites that are still human centric) 3. It uses its own cursor, keyboard etc so you can keep working. 4. Once you do any task once you can simply ask Codex to reflect on what it did and how it would accomplish the task next time with the benefit of hindsight and create a skill AND schedule an automation. It’s really nice that codex can just schedule and edit automations when asked! it’s very Claw like in this way. This last point is not computer use specific but is powerful when combined with computer use 5. The UI polish is insane: you get nice icons for any application you want to tag into computer use plus all the other built in new stuff like built in file viewer and browser so there is no context switching. So you can iterate really fast and not lose focus. Because of the polish it also feels nice and delightful to use.

Paying for Claude Code seats for everyone isn’t an AI adoption strategy. Real adoption starts when teams change how they work, make decisions, and ship faster, not when they just get access to new tools. I wrote (english) about it here durbon.medium.com/paying-for…

We’re updating our ChatGPT Pro and Plus subscriptions to better support the growing use of Codex. We’re introducing a new $100/month Pro tier. This new tier offers 5x more Codex usage than Plus and is best for longer, high-effort Codex sessions. In ChatGPT, this new Pro tier still offers access to all Pro features, including the exclusive Pro model and unlimited access to Instant and Thinking models. To celebrate the launch, we’re increasing Codex usage for a limited time through May 31st so that Pro $100 subscribers get up to 10x usage of ChatGPT Plus on Codex to build your most ambitious ideas.

“I think there’s something quietly screwing up a lot of engineering teams. In interviews, in promotion packets, in design reviews: the engineer who overbuilds gets a compelling narrative, but the one who ships the simplest thing that works gets… nothing. This isn’t intentional, of course. Nobody sits down and says, “let’s make sure the people who over-engineer things get promoted!” But that’s what can happen (and it has been, over and over again) when companies evaluate work incorrectly.” This applies to all areas, not only engineering. Especially now with AI, it’s easier than ever to make things far more complex than they need to be. terriblesoftware.org/2026/03…

Bloqueo de Anthropic. Fin de la comodidad. Tocó configurar OpenClaw en serio: limpiar crons, enrutar modelos por tarea, combinar proveedores (OpenAI, Gemini y Ollama local) y hacer API budgeting consciente. Lección: optimizar sistemas es donde se aprende de verdad.

POV: April 2026

If you used a Claude subscription with OpenClaw, read this: Unfortunately all other AI models out there absolutely suck with OpenClaw compared to Opus It's just a fact and anyone denying this is delusional So here is my new recommended OpenClaw setup: Pay for the Opus API and use it as your orchestrator Then use other models as the execution layer If you do this correctly, yes your costs will go up, but not by as much as you think I use my ChatGPT subscription as the coding execution. GPT 5.4 is excellent at coding. When The Opus orchestrator gives a coding task to the ChatGPT subagent, it always performs really well If you are on the Pro plan, you should have enough usage to have ChatGPT be the execution layer for every task. But if youre on the $20 a month plan, youre going to need other subscriptions to handle other tasks GLM 5.1 and Qwen are excellent. I'd get a cheap sub through them and have them handle all other tasks given to them from the orchestrator The best setup tho if you have the hardware is Opus API for orchestrator, ChatGPT for coding, then local Gemma 4 and local Qwen handling everything else. Right now have Gemma running on my DGX Spark and Qwen 3.5 on my Mac Studio. They handle all other execution from my Opus API orchestrator Unfortunately all options above will cost more than the $200 a month subscription. It just is what it is. But if you optimize correctly it wont cost much more, and you'll still get frontier performance. OpenClaw is the most powerful piece of software ever released. $200 a month ($2,400 a year) was a steal for a digital employee. Honestly anything under $50,000 a year is a no brainer if you run a serious business. The situation isn't great but you also need to face reality: Claude Opus 4.6 is the best model for OpenClaw. If you use any other model, your productivity will suffer Business is a battlefield and I refuse to fall behind, so despite me not being happy with the Anthropic decision the setup above is what I'm going with Virtue signaling might get me brownie points on the internet, but it won't increase my productivity

Anthropic now blocks first-party harness use too 👀 claude -p --append-system-prompt 'A personal assistant running inside OpenClaw.' 'is clawd here?' → 400 Third-party apps now draw from your extra usage, not your plan limits. So yeah: bring your own coin 🪙🦞

Fue bonito mientras duró. Anthropic se se pone serio con lo de usar la suscripción de Claude Max en OpenClaw reddit.com/r/openclaw/s/VWlW…