Then you have the experience to know that every land grab in technology so far has followed the same enshittification path: At first it's all about competing with other entrants to provide value and win customers. Then, inexorably, it shifts from winning customers to defending their turf. Then, inexorably, it shifts from protecting turf to maximizing extraction from their turf.

If you believe that this will be different, why not? But for now, I'm expecting this to go the same way. Yes, LLMs are something completely new. But also, the people behind them are exactly the same as the people behind every previous land grab.

I can't wait for anthropics next big drop to be that it can order you a pizza, steering towards benign, token burning features that you didn't ask for and eye real-estate abuse for ads.

It's the end of an era. Lets pray open weight models give us a real choice soon.

In the meantime, Stonks up Anthropic. I'll always remember the good old days when you championed developers and changed what was possible.