Anthropic co-founder on cutting access to Windsurf
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Anthropic co-founder on cutting access to Windsurf
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#6Now your company needs to worry about building workflows on the back of these neat AI companies, they got bought out and cause a disruption that can reverberate through the org in unknown ways for unknown amounts of time. This and the openai no deletion court order should be a wake up call on how these technologies get implemented and the trust we cede to them.
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#7This seems pretty reasonable to me. I don't really understand why Windsurf, owned by OpenAI (allegedly), should expect to have API access to their main competitor's API. People can still bring their own key and use whatever models they want in that way.
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#8Any app built on top of these model providers could become a competitor to these providers. Since the model providers are currently in the lowest-margin part of the business, it is likely they will try to expand in to the app layer and start pulling the rug from under these businesses built on top of them.
Amazon had a similar tactic, where it would use other sellers on its marketplace to validate market demand for products, and then produce its own cheap copies of the successes.
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#9Now your company needs to worry about building workflows on the back of these neat AI companies, they got bought out and cause a disruption that can reverberate through the org in unknown ways for unknown amounts of time. This and the openai no deletion court order should be a wake up call on how these technologies get implemented and the trust we cede to them.
It’s no different from the shell games that have been going on in enterprise software for the past 30 years.
You can choose independence if you’re willing to use a slightly worse open weight model.
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#10These are two different products. It's like SpaceX launching satellites for competitive satellite internet services. They didn't care that they were providing launch capabilities for a competitor and neither should Anthropic. What if Apple stopped allowing you to use an iPhone if you worked at Google?