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I don’t understand why anyone thinks management of any kind was involved in this at all. It seems much more plausible to me that Jarred just does what he wants.

by dcre 3mo ago

I don’t understand why anyone thinks management of any kind was involved in this at all. It seems much more plausible to me that Jarred just does what he wants. He has said as much.

sufficientsoup 3mo ago
Why take what he said at face value after "Calm down; this is just an experiment... but actually I'm gonna merge this huge thing in a week"?
- noisy_boy 3mo ago
  Seems like if the experiment didn't work, nothing to lose. But it did and he capitalized it in the most in-your-face possible. it would be interesting to line up the timelines of the Rust experiment vs him joining Anthropic.
shimman 3mo ago
Devs need to start realize how people in power take advantage of them. If you already have a bright starry-eyed Peter Thiel acolyte, it's not hard to see how they can be taken advantage of. Especially when it's a multibillion dollar company that stands to give you literally multigenerational defining amount of wealth. They hired them because they already agreed with them. Reminds me of that Noam Chomsky quote during an interview: > Marr: “How can you know I’m self-censoring?” > Chomsky: “I’m not saying you’re self-censoring. I’m sure you believe everything you say. But what I’m saying is if you believed something different you wouldn’t be sitting where you’re sitting.”
FridgeSeal 3mo ago
> don’t understand why anyone thinks management of any kind was involved in this at all Because it’s marketing gold? Any marketer worth their salt would be super keen to get their claws into a project like this. Anthropic and friends are in then business of selling LLM’s. This is a demonstration of LLM capability, they’d be foolish to not even try to cash in on it.
- dcre 3mo ago
  Think about what you’re saying. If Jarred does it because he wants to, what does marketing have to add? How do they “cash in on it”?

by dcre 3mo ago

I don’t understand why anyone thinks management of any kind was involved in this at all. It seems much more plausible to me that Jarred just does what he wants. He has said as much.

sufficientsoup 3mo ago

Why take what he said at face value after "Calm down; this is just an experiment... but actually I'm gonna merge this huge thing in a week"?

noisy_boy 3mo ago
Seems like if the experiment didn't work, nothing to lose. But it did and he capitalized it in the most in-your-face possible. it would be interesting to line up the timelines of the Rust experiment vs him joining Anthropic.

shimman 3mo ago

Devs need to start realize how people in power take advantage of them. If you already have a bright starry-eyed Peter Thiel acolyte, it's not hard to see how they can be taken advantage of. Especially when it's a multibillion dollar company that stands to give you literally multigenerational defining amount of wealth. They hired them because they already agreed with them. Reminds me of that Noam Chomsky quote during an interview: > Marr: “How can you know I’m self-censoring?” > Chomsky: “I’m not saying you’re self-censoring. I’m sure you believe everything you say. But what I’m saying is if you believed something different you wouldn’t be sitting where you’re sitting.”

FridgeSeal 3mo ago

> don’t understand why anyone thinks management of any kind was involved in this at all Because it’s marketing gold? Any marketer worth their salt would be super keen to get their claws into a project like this. Anthropic and friends are in then business of selling LLM’s. This is a demonstration of LLM capability, they’d be foolish to not even try to cash in on it.

dcre 3mo ago
Think about what you’re saying. If Jarred does it because he wants to, what does marketing have to add? How do they “cash in on it”?