| ▲ | Wowfunhappy 5 hours ago | |
It sounds to me like you're describing enshittification. As coined by Cory Doctorow: > Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys (Although I'm not completely sure this maps onto Anthropic, which was never primarily targeting consumers.) | ||
| ▲ | areoform 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
The consumers here are developers -- who are--> potential founders OR future purchase decision makers. It's a TERRIBLE idea to piss them off just because they're small. They're "small" right now. But quite a few of them will have long careers and they will remember. It's why so many trad corp companies give stuff away to students for free / treat the people on the come up as first tier customers. Because those are future decision makers. And the turn table turntables. A cautionary case study is Google. How many times does a founder who is considering which cloud service to use gets cautioned to never use Google Cloud? Google Cloud was a has been before it ever got out of the gate because of just how much goodwill Google blew up over the years. There's nothing, literally nothing, they can spend money on to make that go away in the short-term. And they're not willing to commit to the long-term. | ||
| ▲ | OutOfHere 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Precisely. Anthropic was never good to its consumer users. | ||
| ▲ | verdverm 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
it's always been this way with Claude/Ant though, not something that changed This is more SV modus operandi | ||