So folks are paying Anthropic to moralize down to them, sabotage their work, and leak their data. This is why people end up switching as soon as an alternative becomes viable.

Hermes does this too if you for example look up something on SEC EDGAR, it will include your name and intent in the User-Agent, adding you to a federal register. Cool cool cool.

It’s embarrassing to be in tech right now.

Sober people making drunk decisions with a great sense of self-importance and seriousness, delivering outcomes as unserious as it gets.

Believing Anthropic won't use your data for their own corporate interests is like believing apps like WhatsApp don't ship with backdoors, which is a very beginner-level mindset if you hang around HN.

The design decision actually makes sense though.

It's just that Anthropic needs to create an email per user and use it for web searches.

I can do this for you Anthropic. Just give me the tokens and your base salary

Stuff like this is why I use API tokens and custom harnesses.

CC and Codex are like contemporary televisions. You are the product in this arrangement.

Thunk: "Privacy? What's that?!"