Enshittification has been already running full speed even before the IPO via guardrails and attempts at vendor lock-in. Now they will just push it to 110%. It's good that we have other options.
Re:Anthropic IPO
by mrdootdoot on Thursday November 12, 2026 @03:30PM
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It was AWS cloud tolerable if that makes sense. You still could get what you needed done, and integrate and plug in and out easily.
And AWS is willing to let things die - they make so much money they don't care. I don't see that being the case for Anthropic.
I’ll always remember the good times.
But you’re wrong ser about small or cheaper models. Choosing to work or not having a choice to work with cheaper models means you work slower and more methodically because you have to plan out the work and size it to fit. This has huge implications on the value of the work you can produce as an employee or solo developer, and it’s a skill working with these SOTA models - there is specific crafting that must be done to be effective with each and their capabilities.
You will see the old eyeball real estate game, forcing more of your experience into their apps and platform so you can see ads or “new slop features”. You will see the SOTA models more closely guarded in an effort to bait you into that platform, and yes, you will see them doing things they never should be doing, moving towards an open AI like model where it can order a pizza, where monetization it was always important, but is now the golden rule, before all else.
I hope open models can at least give me opus 4.8 experience soon, I can work with that. But nothing out there today can do it and that terrifies me.