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Anthropic's Method to Losing Goodwill in a Few Easy Steps

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Re: Anthropic's Method to Losing Goodwill in a Few Easy Steps

#12

The lawsuits will come, paying the piper is inevitable.

Who would sue, and on what ground?

They basically gave stuff away for free and now they're speed-running enshittification. The end state will be an abusive, adversarial, fully monetized, vendor lockin experience like Oracle or Broadcom. Nobody is forced to play.

Re: Anthropic's Method to Losing Goodwill in a Few Easy Steps

#13
I have been using Claude code for a while and have recently migrated to Pi

Migrating my skills/agents and config was fairly straightforward.

Pi's agent harness seems to be more responsive and quicker than CC (perhaps with the prompt caching and squashing it does behind the scenes)

Tempted to do a write-up on migration.

I am only using Pi with Github Copilot as I am scared I will get my Claude account banned if I use the Oauth with Pi.

pi.dev

Re: Anthropic's Method to Losing Goodwill in a Few Easy Steps

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post #6

Think I'm about to switch. I can't build the automations i'm trying to with claude code anymore. Since they locked away the non-interactive usage and channels can't be used without interacting with the console on startup. I had a good web interface for running CC in containers in k8s but I think it's time to bail out and build around a codex subscription and pi.dev now. I have local models hooked up to pi dev and tha…

It reminds me of people who built businesses on top of APIs provided by Facebook, Reddit, etc. One day the company decides to rug pull the public interface, either to replace it with their own competing product or nothing at all. The anti-competitive pratice makes sense but what I don't understand is the latter case, which is common, where the company is just removing possibilities of how users can participate in their ecosystem and platform. Not only destroying third-party opportunities for profit, but not even providing their own alternative.

Re: Anthropic's Method to Losing Goodwill in a Few Easy Steps

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It's looking like Anthropic is realizing that they're about to get squeezed so they need to juice revenue for their IPO before it becomes obvious to everyone else. Open models like GLM 5.2 are getting good enough to handle 90% of tasks, and will eat most of their usage unless they start serving it at cost. And on the 1% work they fearmongered their way into falling under government control, which will limit how much…

> Open models like GLM 5.2 are getting good enough to handle 90% of tasks, and will eat most of their usage unless they start serving it at cost.

Most people either don’t have the money to buy hardware to run open models and/or don’t have the utilisation to make renting cost effective.

Re: Anthropic's Method to Losing Goodwill in a Few Easy Steps

#17

Anthropic takes every chance they make not only to behave suspicious and anti-consumer but also announce that they are acting in ways that hurt you while telling you it’s a feature. Fable returning wrong answers if it suspects the topic is sensative is the ultimate icing on the huge cake of lies and gaslighting they’ve been baking the past 6 months.

It's the nature of the safetyist position. It creates everything that it claims to avoid (duplicitous behavior, misaligned outputs, unresponsive systems).

Re: Anthropic's Method to Losing Goodwill in a Few Easy Steps

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Not sure why this was flagged, Anthropic has obviously been burning bridges. I thought this line was funny though: > If you want to autocomplete, like I do, you don’t need Fable, or even Opus; Sonnet works fine. It reads like "if you want to go to the grocery store, you don't need a space shuttle, or even a SR-71 Blackbird; a Cessna works fine."

While I did not flag this, it is clearly a hit piece. Why write an article to publish in July that does not include June data? Unless of course one looks at June uptime and finds that does not align with their story.

Re: Anthropic's Method to Losing Goodwill in a Few Easy Steps

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>Dario and Boris have us convinced that “coding is solved” with their loops. But microwaves didn’t solve cooking.

If you want a look at the timeline where the microwave solved cooking, this was an interesting article: https://malmesbury.substack.com/p/my-journey-to-the-microwav.... You can apparently sear meat with a microwave (provided you have the necessary pan).

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