Exactly this! Imagine a whole generation associating search with DDG or Kagi? That would really move the needle in the future regarding tech adoption to alternative platforms

There are so many abliterated models available right now that it’s tough to see what the strategy could look like for Anthropic. When I have a project that I even suspect could get a rejection, I just run it locally now. Even if Claude says it won’t reject it, I don’t chance it. I may pass of some parts to Opus but the majority of it is local with local agents. What does that do for Anthropic? Well, what I would have needed a $200 subscription to run, I can accomplish with the $20 subscription. Not sure how they plan to make enough money to cover expenses with those usage patterns.

I mean, I get it. If I was ONLY using that 32GB for local AI models then we could take about efficiency and centralization but that’s not the case for most people. When I run local models, I am not running my music DAW with tons of plugins, I’m also not gaming or doing video editing. When I shutdown the local model, I’m usually starting up a game or a recording session. I could just be in the middle of a workday with a lot of teams, Firefox, and vs code running. It could be a video editing day. His concept could be accurate if that memory was used for one thing only on my machine but that’s not the case.

Why you snitching?

This is pervasive throughout any segments where AI is leveraged. I’ve heard it called a Diamond-shaped market. What used to be a pyramid of entry-level to mid tier to experienced staff no longer has entry level. So it’s just mid tier and experienced staff. There is no one in the pipeline to move up. What happens then? The genie is out of the bottle. The big AI shops could close up now and it would only slow the decline as local models are getting more performant. I’m impressed at what Qwen can do on a MacBook with 32 gig of ram. The question I have is, what’s the solution? I got nothing other than hoping the process of decline drags out longer than I think it will.

I’m guessing that as the guardrails are out in place on Anthropic models, they will still use Claude code but leverage Qwen (or similar) as the LLM. Maybe they are doing that already and simply misunderstanding what Claude is. The LLM wasn’t named…I would expect them to call out Opus (as an example) but they just refer to Claude. My basic guess is just Claude Code witha random model. Could be like Mistral-OBLITERATED or something.

The main challenge I see is that Aaron Schwartz and countless others have been prosecuted for access to information but AI companies have been rewarded. There is precedence that access like this is not legal. Had they gone through a library system or used a mechanic like that it may have worked but from what I understand, they used torrents and other mechanics to access the data. So you have companies that go after individual infringement but pursue their own mass infringement. Whether AI generated materials is infringement is above my pay grade but their consumption of the materials seems pretty straight forward as infringement.

There are a bunch of areas where AI has really struggled and design like this is a good example. My closest experience is AI trying to create Lucid charts. Everytime I see it done I think, “what drugs are you taking” and realize it’s an AI creation. At the super high level it looks like it could be accurate and then you start following the flow diagrams and it’s insane.

This to me feels like a rift between the generations. I’m too old to likely ever trust these things to function without concern of what they will do. Folk older than me tend to excessively trust this type of tech and the folk younger than me seem the same. In my mind it creates a break between those in the ecosystem and those that are not. Like how a bunch of places in my town don’t have websites but do have Facebook pages for their business. I don’t have a FB account so it’s a pain for me but no one else seems to mind. It’s kinda weird being the generation that helped usher in the internet and modern connectivity yet being kinda left out of tech ecosystems (by choice or by exclusion).

Combat the minefield with a fork bomb. Ain’t no process surviving this engagement.