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I feel like I see this comment every few months and yet in between people keep talking about all of the functionality they’re getting out of anthropic’s offerin

I feel like I see this comment every few months and yet in between people keep talking about all of the functionality they’re getting out of anthropic’s offerings. It doesn’t seem to me that people are willing to give up the “shackles” as it were and we’re just going to wind up with what we’re fearing here. On top of that, local models are just not turnkey enough for the average person yet (go ahead and drop somebody into LM studio and tell them to get to work, it won’t go well).

glimshe 4mo ago
The reason Anthropic gets away with all of that is that Claude revenues are increasing with no end in sight. People write these entitled rants and silently go back to Anthropic and OpenAI like obedient puppies.
- Forgeties79 4mo ago
  It’s in increasing but they still haven’t gotten into the black. I’m pretty sure nobody has yet, right?
  - glimshe 4mo ago
    Probably not, but I think the investors care more about users and subscriptions than profits at this point.
    - Forgeties79 4mo ago
      That’s the old model for sure but we’ve never seen this much investment this rapidly. They have to be getting cold feet by now. Hence anthropic going public. If they had a strategy for getting in the black AND longterm viability I feel like we’d see them roll private longer. But instead we’re seeing all the signs of “grow, exit, let the next dude figure it out.”
      - glimshe 4mo ago
        I completely agree. I was just pointing out the current expectations and behavior.
2muchcoffeeman 4mo ago
The best models are clearly all from US companies. But I think what you’ll see is people making sure the model they use can just be plugged into their workflow. I used to use Gemini-cli until they did a Google and cancelled it in favour of anti-gravity. That was my fault. Fool me the 10th time shame on me. So I picked more open source offerings that I can use with any model. Once the other models are good enough, I just need to jump ship.

glimshe 4mo ago

The reason Anthropic gets away with all of that is that Claude revenues are increasing with no end in sight. People write these entitled rants and silently go back to Anthropic and OpenAI like obedient puppies.

Forgeties79 4mo ago
It’s in increasing but they still haven’t gotten into the black. I’m pretty sure nobody has yet, right?
- glimshe 4mo ago
  Probably not, but I think the investors care more about users and subscriptions than profits at this point.
  - Forgeties79 4mo ago
    That’s the old model for sure but we’ve never seen this much investment this rapidly. They have to be getting cold feet by now. Hence anthropic going public. If they had a strategy for getting in the black AND longterm viability I feel like we’d see them roll private longer. But instead we’re seeing all the signs of “grow, exit, let the next dude figure it out.”
    - glimshe 4mo ago
      I completely agree. I was just pointing out the current expectations and behavior.

2muchcoffeeman 4mo ago

The best models are clearly all from US companies. But I think what you’ll see is people making sure the model they use can just be plugged into their workflow. I used to use Gemini-cli until they did a Google and cancelled it in favour of anti-gravity. That was my fault. Fool me the 10th time shame on me. So I picked more open source offerings that I can use with any model. Once the other models are good enough, I just need to jump ship.