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Let the enshittification begin
grendelt | parent | next
Absolutely.

So what's the best primer we can share for getting started with local llms?

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ZiiS | parent | next
What is super odd about this is no-one expects Anthropic to prioritizes shareholders.
jpadkins | root | parent
except the employees will be compensated with equity, so they will have an incentive to pump the stock price to increase their compensation. I've seen this play out (and subconsciously been a part of it) for over a decade at Google. The early, super rich leaders won't be the ones to enshittify, but the next generation of leaders that are trying to get rich will feel the stock price reward signal.
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colesantiago | parent | next
> Let the enshittification begin

But is there a solution to this though?

How does one stop 'enshittification' of everything exactly?

I'm not talking just about Anthropic.

palata | root | parent | next
One thing Doctorow suggests is to remove anti-circumvention, thus allowing adversarial interoperability.
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tremarley | root | parent | next
Competition Enforcement

Strong privacy laws

Tech unionization

Mandated data portability.

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colesantiago | root | parent
Has these successfully combatted against enshittification entirely?

Which places has this been successful?

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marginalia_nu | root | parent
The solution is mostly not to go public. Valve is a good example of this.

Do well enough that you don't need outside investors, or if you take on outside investors select them carefully and ensure they don't expect an IPO.

colesantiago | root | parent
Valve is a bad example.

For game developers, they are a nearing close to a monopoly with Steam, anything PC and for distribution has to go through them and they take a cut, any other places aren't as effective.

Valve has no real competitors or competition.

Unless Valve faces intense competition to change, enshittification will be inevitable since they know nobody can really challenge them.

This is regardless of self or outside funding or no plans to IPO.

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jfckenfishf | parent | next
Opus 5.5 has been terrible for me for the last week - so seems like they got the memo.

Luckily switching is super easy so I'm now back to codex (and hopefully carbon soon)

seizethecheese | root | parent
I hope it's not their next model (it looks like it might be) I did an investigation with some battle data here: https://micjm.com/blog/get-ready-for-fewer-opus-5.5-em-dashe...
mococa | parent
It already enshitificated from the very begin