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Let me help you by breaking down your point.
> The goal is to find solutions
> and to advance the field
Nobody seems to be disputing LLMs help with the former, but some are concerned that the latter is jeopardized by having aliens do our homework.
How has revenue changed during the AI period? Are you guys able to maintain or grow with the rise of coding agents?
[edit: what’s with the downvotes? I love the story and am curious if Claude etc have affected their business.]
Is this like a PR piece for the guy? It's odd to see him singled out in a piece that would be normally be about the company, the CEO or the decision itself.
lol I guess you just settled a hundred years of product liability jurisprudence
I don’t disagree, but this ignores some of what we have learned about critical masses and network effects. If everyone can just take their own copy with no interaction, many won’t join the community and it may never reach a critical mass despite and because of its openness.
People blame AI and/or the culture there, but IMO competition got it. As more and more code went to public domains (i.e., mostly GitHub), it became just as quick and often better to go to the source itself.
Two types of bankruptcy in the U.S.: liquidation and reorganization. The latter lets a company reshuffle assets and debt and schedule new payment plans to continue to exist as a going concern. It often wipes out shareholders.
> Certainly the previous generations had more kids, and probably spent less time actively parenting them.
Yes but those kids weren't at real risk of having their minds completely subverted by for-profit organizations.
Due respect, neither of those make sense. PHP is boring software, and this website routinely suggests (1) use it if it is fit for purpose and (2) don't rewrite for the sake of it. For most sites, the engineering effort to have a static backup of their dynamic website (say, generated by Wordpress or Drupal) just isn't possible. They just need to power down and patch.
[EDIT: I see I may have erroneously extended your criticism to sites other than NCSC, for which it does make sense. I would still defend using PHP.]
Seems like even the EOL versions should get a patch for something like this.
What? No. i'm saying if they IPO without disclosing this, they are going to be sued when/if that authority is invoked by people who bought it at the IPO without know about this.
Sorry, when you say similar language, do you mean it's disclosed? That's all I was responding to. This isn't my area, but I practiced securities law for 10 years and to me an arrangement affecting governance like this would need to be disclosed under 10(b)-5.
Oh, no i'm just saying that's the trigger when you get sued
Eh, not sure I agree here.
> It can seat four members of Anthropic’s seven-member board, and dismiss them without cause.
Good luck without a risk factor and description of that thing in the prospectus the first time that authority is invoked on a public company.
Yep.
The worst part about this is that if you aren't watching it, the AI will "solve" this with a thousand assert_3_plus_5_equals_8() test cases that just further clutter the workspace and the context window. Churn baby churn.
Is your brain so fried you can't even read 3 consecutive sentences?
> am proud to say that as part of our new union contract, Current Affairs recently adopted one of the strictest anti-AI policies in the publishing industry. No text that is AI-generated may be published in our magazine. No AI-generated art may be used as a Current Affairs illustration.
No, but none of that seems out of reach of Claude in a loop given my reading of TFA. That’s why I asked.
Ripe for optimization against maintainability, of course, but yeah it would seem to matter if that generalizes.
Honest question: at this point, what do people do at Anthropic?
It sounds like Claude loops on itself and must be pushing millions of lines of code changes per day. Even the humans can’t type commit fast enough. Are these people soon to be laid off?
> Maybe law school will have to be a year longer.
Law school is already 3 years long in the US (after 4 years of undergrad), and most agree the second two are a complete waste of time. Other jurisdictions are different, but the US market is by far the largest.
I guess I mean it's a choice in the sense that it's a transparent part of the product that one chooses how and when to use (or not). That's opposed to something running in the background on its own schedule, with its own agenda whether the user is running the application or not.
[Edit: yes, that is kind of the idea. Native version has better features because it can access them.]
It's not necessarily hostility. We considered different updating approaches with our legal IDE where security, stability, etc. are paramount, and having a buggy application out in the wild is user-hostile. Sure, in a dream world we'd say "don't ship until it's perfect", but that's just not realistic.
We considered the daemon thing, but ended up with a hard-update check on every boot. It's thus a user choice: if you don't like the automatic updating, you can just not run the application anymore.
And even with all that, it's hard to stay on the right side of AV algorithms, etc.
We wrote about it here: https://tritium.legal/blog/update
Haha yes, please I’ve been dying for the vibe-coded alternative!
There's already a huge market of OSS products that are much more stable and closer to real feature parity to the Adobe suite. How have all those users bringing their own Claude subscriptions worked out there?
The issue they will hit is that without a direct economic incentive and paying customers, there's zero perceived benefit for fixing bugs if you don't even share in the joy of the work. Thus you end up with a buggy, free version of Adobe's incredible product suite that tries to ride the hype/feature treadmill in perpetuity.
> Adobe has nothing to worry about
I think you nailed it.
Despite some of the takes in here, this stuff widens adobes moat by disincentivizing thoughtful innovation and driving out any real competition from below. The only type of people that will be interested in this crapware are the types that were probably willing to pirate it to begin with.
Zero, zilch, nadda chance that these attention seekers with zero to add will be around long enough to improve this crapware over the medium term.