Incidentally pi stopped working today - under the Claude subscription ban for other harnesses. Awaiting a plugin that fixes it.
How is anthropic enforcing the ban, are there identifiers sent from harnesses?
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#12> You cannot imagine what people called me on social media and via email, despite me having zero control over the situation
Well, perhaps they were right. Naturally when it comes to open source, people don't have any control over what others do with their own time. If they do not contribute financially (or their own time into improvement a project) then even less so. Still, it is a decision that has been made because of prioritising one's own personal goals. This is fine; but to expect that others share the same 1:1 opinion is not logical.
> Like me, he thinks open-source and open protocols are a necessity, not just lipstick on a corporate pig.
I think the description is also painting lipstick on a pig. I've seen too many who promote open source but then sell out suddenly. Github? And what is the influence Shopify is doing in the ruby ecosystem? But anyway, that is all their own personal thing. To assume any community needs to share those personal success stories ... it makes no sense.
> Earendil's products are built on top of pi.
Ok, so ... that is lipstick. Aka promo. I don't understand why he critisizes others but then does the same himself. Which is fine; I just don't get the assessment he is doing.
> Despite its Tolkien-inspired name, Earendil is not a tech company with fascist tendencies.
Here he refers to Palantir clearly. Thiel is abusing Tolkien IMO. Or he sees himself as Sauron or whatever. But he is more a clown Sauron, just like his mad orange king is.
> who think software, and specifically AI, should serve humans, not the other way around.
Does AI serve humans? Or does it serve those who control it?
> Finally, and most importantly to me, almost everyone on the team has kids.
So what? I mean, many people who are not so well in the head, had kids. I am not saying that refers to the blog author here, mind you - I refer to the "my criterium is that all have kids". Pity on those fools who don't have kids then?
> pi is owned by Earendil, the company.
Ultimately people will derive value from it, or not; but it is clearly a private project. Even if open source, we can see that with chrome + Google. Google makes most decisions. Yes, you can build on top of it; I use thorium right now, for instance. But I am not fooled one second who effectively controls a project here.
Best luck of success to him.
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#13At least they didn't call it Open pi.
Not yet. :)
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#15Why does everything have to be named after Lord of the bloody Rings
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#16Happy for Mario, Pi is the best harness I've ever tried. But overall disappointed by this decision. "This time everything is different" until it's not.
I mean what is the alternative here?
Mario maintains the project pro bono, which is only possible because he had an exit a couple of years ago. I believe it is a lot of work making sure that the quality of the codebase doesn't detoriate with the onslaught of slop that is hitting open source projects right now.
Additionally, I have massive respect for Armin and I don't believe Earandil is your typical VC startup that wants to grow no matter what.
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#17Happy for Mario, Pi is the best harness I've ever tried. But overall disappointed by this decision. "This time everything is different" until it's not.
In a world with certain incentives, one must always expect people to act in accordance with them. If you don't like it, change the incentives or cope.
I can just see you telling that to a slave in 1830. What? You don't like slavery? Don't you see that you have to expect the slave owners to act in accordance with the incentives god gave them and force you to gather cotton until your hands bleed? change it or cope dude. Or someone watching from the hills as the horde of Gengis Khan torches their city and puts everyone they've ever known to the sword - those mongols are activing in accordance with incentives! Change it or cope!
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#18Incidentally pi stopped working today - under the Claude subscription ban for other harnesses. Awaiting a plugin that fixes it.
How is anthropic enforcing the ban, are there identifiers sent from harnesses?
I think if you were going to send the same harness/prompt traffic as Claude Code, then you’d just use Claude Code. Alternatives generally are trying to do something different, thus are going to be easy to detect.
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#19Incidentally pi stopped working today - under the Claude subscription ban for other harnesses. Awaiting a plugin that fixes it.
How is anthropic enforcing the ban, are there identifiers sent from harnesses?
From the Claude Code codemap leak, it seems like Claude Code is sending metadata about the binary that is sending HTTP requests
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#20> The one thing that differentiated Armin from other internet trolls was the way he conducted himself in these heated discussions. He was never emotional or aggressive. Our discussions would either end in cordial disagreement, or a newfound common understanding. That's extremely rare on the internet. Ah haha so armin is also an Internet troll, right? For example if I said, one thing that sets the "Concorde apart from…
Another one is:
> Colin is pretty OK for an ex-finance dude
Making it look like the author disapproves of finance dudes but finds Colin tolerable yet still within the expected parameters of badness.