mattmaroon

In the way that that will make you click the link.

Right, the thing is, for most tasks, there’s a finish line. Once a model can do a given task right, future improvements may be of little to no benefit beyond cost reduction.

Right now OpenAI and Claude (and maybe Gemini) are over the finish line with reasonable prices for many tasks whereas the rest are still in the race.

But what happens when the open weight models cross the line and it just comes down to price?

I do a similar thing with 6.1 Sol. I find it pretty comparable to Opus 5.5 in many ways.

“If owning a McDonald’s is so good, why sell franchises?”

At least for now, everything they produce is yours to do with as you please. Just ask them for it. I’ve asked Claude to teach my Hermes agent one skill after another.

Data portability is essentially infinite with AI.

And it had a happy ending!

We have that now in several systems, maybe most, it just isn’t AI. If your water has lead in it, you’ve got one highly incompetent local government to remediate it. If your health care goes out of network with the only hospital system in your small city or town and you have a heart attack you’re fucked. If one security software pushes a bug to production the airlines shut down. Etc.

Single points of failure are a fact of life.

AI offers relative democratization. What’s going on with model competition is giving us more choice, not less.

This is the language of someone who is blind to the reality of actual war. I’m sorry, you don’t have PTSD because computers got good at theoretical math problems, and part of the reason half our population looks down on elites is they talk like this to each people who got hit by an IED in Fallujah.

The agents only have to be better than we are and we’re not very good. Same argument as self-driving.

Don’t fear change.

Eh, Apple spent years suing Samsung while also buying parts from them for their products. You can be a partner and an enemy at the same time at the high levels of the game.

Well, I should mention I'm using it for business automation, not coding. But yes, it is great and cheap.

Fair point. But Meta also has a vested interest in keeping terms of service strong, so it wouldn’t really do for them to violate Anthropic’s and then go to court over it. Meta would then be in a lose-lose scenario, all over an open weight model that is a money sink to begin with.

In the US at least, freedom of religion does grant some exceptions. The Amish do not participate in Social Security and Medicare, for instance, but I cannot opt out. I’m not sure how it works other places.

I’m not saying I endorse this, but that is why.

Horseshit sucks and being around those animals in a city sucks so it’s an easy sell.

There’s nothing more cruel about halal slaughter, as long as they stun (which most do), than the common method.