Yes, today we’re far from being there.
But it was the same with commercial software vs open source decades ago
I am starting to really, really dislike how Anthropic specifically treats even paying customers, almost as if it was doing us a favor for even allowing paying for their model
Sure, the model is powerful. And they say nerfing only happens if you do LLM-development related stuff. Which means pretty much anything with modern software engineering could trigger it.
It just feels increasingly an unfrair playing field. More competition will be much welcome
Well, that's a first.
An enterpreneur who I met at a cafe a while back and was a nice guy and said we'd follow up perhaps just sent me an AI-genereated pitch.
This wiped out the personal connection I had in my mind with this person.
How do people not realize AI does this?
How someone ended the brief but positive personal relationship we had. I don't meet all that many people in-person, but the ones I do, I try to prioritize later on, as I would have done with this person.
Sending an AI-written email is the best way to burn any personal connection
Seeing how SOTA models are evolving: becoming more restrictive in usage (decided by the company), less transparent (you cannot tell if the AI lab nerfed your model) + less private (your prompts are stored, no opt out) makes me much more interested in open models + local inference
Things I really dislike about Fable:
1. Anthropic collects my prompt history, stores it, and does whatever they want with it for 30 days. No opt-out
2. They can nerf their most expensive model without telling me, billing me the same amount, wasting my time. Whenever they want
Here's what triggered to write the Trimodal nature of software engineering compensation:
At a time when the median salary for senior devs in the Netherlands was ~€65K, I made €240-280K per year, about 5x that amount.
Most people did not know this tier existed back then:
... and yet, as a manager recruiting for these positions that were in this "hidden tier", I "lost" candidates who told me up front they won't bother interviewing as surely eg Uber could not match their freelance comp, so it would be a waste of time
So: blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-eng...