And all my work explains why there doesn't seem to exist such a system in our current mode of operation at the very top level of apex predators at full spectrum total information dominance level, competing for the role of defining the global world order. Is utility for us ethical? I have answered this, it's all about the power to enforce outcomes.
You're right. The article frames it as 'Anthropic changed.' The honest version is simpler: I'm 34 and still catching up to the idea that no one at this level cares about anything except the P&L. The system doesn't produce exceptions. It produces companies that are better at looking like exceptions
Appreciate the honesty. Maybe now is a good time to do some background research on the companies providing local open source models. I somehow expect the greedy opportunist behavior to soon backfire as we move en masse to good enough local models. Not sure how it is going to turn out. Will the gap between high end models and the best local models be high enough to justify the undoubtedly upcoming greedy opportunist move, i.e. a steep price increase? I don't think so. So are the kimi's, deepseek's, GLM's and Qwen's Leadership as evil as the bigtechs'?
The difference is: when Anthropic or OpenAI enshittify their product, you're locked in. When Alibaba decides to stop releasing Qwen, you still have every weight they ever published, running on your hardware, forever.
Are they evil? Probably not less than any other megacorp. But evil + open weights is a fundamentally different deal than evil + closed API. One can rug-pull you. The other already gave you the rug.
And the gap question: it's closing. Qwen3.6-27B runs on a $3k MacBook and matches Claude Opus 4.5 on coding benchmarks. The price increases are happening now, but the justification for paying them is shrinking every quarter.
I'm currently looking at a setup: ForgeCode (open source coding agent, #1 on TermBench 2.0) + Qwen3.6-27B running locally via Ollama on an M3 Mac. $0/month, no API keys, no locking, MCP support out of the box. Haven't battle-tested it yet, but the pieces are all there.
And all my work explains why there doesn't seem to exist such a system in our current mode of operation at the very top level of apex predators at full spectrum total information dominance level, competing for the role of defining the global world order. Is utility for us ethical? I have answered this, it's all about the power to enforce outcomes.
You're right. The article frames it as 'Anthropic changed.' The honest version is simpler: I'm 34 and still catching up to the idea that no one at this level cares about anything except the P&L. The system doesn't produce exceptions. It produces companies that are better at looking like exceptions
Appreciate the honesty. Maybe now is a good time to do some background research on the companies providing local open source models. I somehow expect the greedy opportunist behavior to soon backfire as we move en masse to good enough local models. Not sure how it is going to turn out. Will the gap between high end models and the best local models be high enough to justify the undoubtedly upcoming greedy opportunist move, i.e. a steep price increase? I don't think so. So are the kimi's, deepseek's, GLM's and Qwen's Leadership as evil as the bigtechs'?
The difference is: when Anthropic or OpenAI enshittify their product, you're locked in. When Alibaba decides to stop releasing Qwen, you still have every weight they ever published, running on your hardware, forever.
Are they evil? Probably not less than any other megacorp. But evil + open weights is a fundamentally different deal than evil + closed API. One can rug-pull you. The other already gave you the rug.
And the gap question: it's closing. Qwen3.6-27B runs on a $3k MacBook and matches Claude Opus 4.5 on coding benchmarks. The price increases are happening now, but the justification for paying them is shrinking every quarter.
I'm currently looking at a setup: ForgeCode (open source coding agent, #1 on TermBench 2.0) + Qwen3.6-27B running locally via Ollama on an M3 Mac. $0/month, no API keys, no locking, MCP support out of the box. Haven't battle-tested it yet, but the pieces are all there.
Sounds genuinely promising Denis! Be sure to keep us updated!