I moved off Claude Code 3 months ago.

That decision keeps getting better and better as time goes on.

Part of the premise of the article is blatantly wrong. Distillation prevention was always visible. The only invisible safeguard was against frontier model development like development of training pipelines. This doesn't change the general idea that invisible degradation is bad and has been reverted, but the article changes the framing of the original issue from "preventing accelerating AI in the future" to "preventing cheaper AI right now".

Boobytrapping is illegal. Anthropic wanted to poison its customers on the suspicion of them misusing their services.

They make great models, but the sanctimony and paternalism is getting old real fast and I will gladly ditch them in the future when the model playing field has (hopefully) mostly equalized.

[dupe] We already started a thread on this 12 hours ago. With added comments in the active Cybersecurity... thread. Why did we need this Verge one?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48485958

I just _know_ there is a (probably fairly large) group of people at Anthropic trying very hard to not say "I told you so" today

Anthropic apologizes for nothing. We all know where the EA cult on things of this matter and any statements otherwise is just PR.

The beliefs of these people, and how they manifest, is deeply terrifying to me. They believe that any means are acceptable to achieve what they believe is a better end.

The demand for Google's products and open source just shifted.

Neither OAI or Anthropic can be trusted.

They didn't apologize for doing it, they are sorry they were caught doing it. They still nerf the model if your request is about AI development.

The same week that they will move goalposts by blocking 3rd party harnesses on claude code. Nice.

I was a happy Max user.