qwant news | Sources: Mark Zuckerberg is back to writing code after a two-decade hiatus, submitting three diffs to Meta's monorepo, and is a heavy user of Claude Code CLI

Anthropic announced that, effective April 4 2026 at 12 p.m. PT, Claude subscriptions will no longer cover usage on third‑party tools such as OpenClaw. The company says the move is meant to “better manage capacity” and to focus on customers who use its own products and API. Existing subscribers can still access Claude through discounted extra‑usage bundles or a one‑time credit equal to their monthly plan, and they may request a full refund. The change sparked a flood of reactions on X, with many users complaining that the policy was a “rug‑pull” and others noting that the subscription model was never intended for heavy third‑party load.

At the same time, OpenAI is undergoing a senior‑leadership reshuffle. COO Brad Lightcap is shifting to a “special projects” role that will oversee an internal “DeployCo” team aimed at accelerating enterprise adoption of its AI services. Meanwhile, CMO Kate Rouch is stepping down to focus on cancer treatment, and fellow executive Fidji Simo is taking a medical leave. The changes have been widely reported, with analysts questioning whether the moves signal a broader strategic pivot as OpenAI grapples with rapid growth and new competition.

Other headlines on the Techmeme snapshot include Elon Musk’s requirement that banks advising on the SpaceX IPO purchase Grok subscriptions and advertise on X, and reports that Iranian strikes have knocked two AWS availability zones in Bahrain and Dubai “hard down,” prompting Amazon to de‑prioritize the regions. Additional notable items feature the U.S. CFTC suing three states over prediction‑market regulation, Microsoft’s $10 billion AI and cybersecurity investment in Japan, and the launch of Cursor 3—a new agent‑first coding platform positioned as a competitor to Claude Code and Codex. These items together paint a picture of a sector grappling with capacity limits, regulatory pressures, and an accelerating race to lock‑in AI infrastructure.

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I have been working on regenerating the (long-lost) source code for Nodes of Yesod, a game I wrote for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum in 1985. I have been picking away at this Z80 disassembly for nearly 20 years, starting with IDA and later moving to Ghidra.

While the project has been technically complete for some time (it reassembles to a binary identical to the shipped game), my goal is to release a fully documented codebase that is actually readable for future developers and historians.

To that end, this weekend, I compared the Claude Code CLI and the Gemini CLI for the specific task of identifying and defining symbols for methods, labels, and constants. In the past, I've run into context memory issues with the web interfaces, but the CLI tools seem to handle this single 30K+ line file very well.

Here is the breakdown:

Claude Code CLI: It is faster and understands the Z80 context with very few mistakes. However, it is significantly more expensive for this volume of work, running into Pro plan rate limits relatively quickly.

Gemini CLI: This allows me to work much longer before hitting rate limits on the Pro plan. It requires more iteration to get the output right, but it is a great workhorse.

The screenshots below show an example of the results, including some ASCII art Claude generated directly from the raw sprite bitmap data, and a section of code constants where both the name and comments were determined or augmented by Claude.

#SinclairSpectrum #OdinComputerGraphics #OldDogNewTricks #RetroDev #RetroGames #ReverseEngineering #SoftwarePreservation #ClaudeCodeCLI #GeminiCLI