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  • In a weird sort of way it does. Consider all of the following

    1. big companies are often incompetent and inefficient in a lot of ways
    2. The mozilla foundation has confirmed the security issues that Anthropic found were real
    3. Generally over the past few years, anthropic has some of the best, most reliable models
    4. Claude code has been kinda bad for a while
    5. Claude code has been mainly bot-written for a while as well. This can lead to functional, decent code that’s still terrible in many ways as seen from the leak. Also it’s entirely possible that bots are worse at detecting issues in bot written code. You could argue if they were good at it, they would be less likely to write those security issues in the first place?
    6. Anthropic could have very skilled ml engineers but mediocre software developers















  • I’d rather some key people get impeached than files. Primarily because I think precisely nothing will happen if they come out.

    Oh there’ll be a lot of outrage, of memes, of articles and whatever but nothing much will really happen if it wasn’t happening already. The files are just information after all, and we haven’t done much with the info we have.

    It’ll just be like the Panama papers all over again.



  • I’m going to be honest, I have no idea how open source works. I can’t imagine maintaining anything more than a tiny library that I can ignore six days of the week.

    Also: open source relies on good jobs. You can only do it if you have a well paid low stress job with good hours. Those have been in short supply recently.

    I think the free time covid gave, followed by the free time the layoffs gave, and AI have been patching / hiding the fact that the core model of open source is completely unsustainable in its current state.




  • Remember when they were saying, “We’re the ones who actually tried to pass a bill to crack down on immigration, but Trump blocked it.” The Democrats actively downplayed the threat that Trump posed by trying to claim that he was all talk.

    If I remember in the news cycle this bill was a pretty minor thing. The overall message I got was still mainly Democrats = immigration friendly, path to legalization, Republicans = throw these criminals out, though ofc the news I got may not be representative.

    Also yes Democrats may have claimed some things about republicans, but on the flip side Republicans also claimed constantly that democrats are softies letting every one and their mother in, so it sort of cancels out.