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Claude Code now does this natively without need for a 3rd party browser like Comet: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/12012173-getting-star...
Economic Termite is a useful new term and I do hope it becomes more popular.

Some other examples that the author didn't cover:

Payment processors: VISA/ Mastercard have near monopoly over transaction fees

Digital Ads: Google & Facebook are the Economic Termites in that space.

Cloud Service Providers: The ET's here are AWS and Azure!

Text book publishers: Prices always ever go up as the publishers control the market tightly.

Re:Jan Leike Resigns from OpenAI on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @11:33AM (#40368290)
LLMs are gigantic curves fitted to civilizational scale datasets. LLM predictions are based on this. A language model is a mathematical construct and can only be as intelligent as that Algebra book sitting on your shelf.