@matthewstoller@TheStalwart A competitive market would offer *tailored AI tools. A lot of Claude's value (for us) is the tools they give us to *constrain it: keep it focused, use it to build deterministic software tools - that we can QA. We don't really need "claude", we need a suite of tools.
@matthewstoller@TheStalwart Yup. I'm just a dweeb in software, company is mandating we use Claude (our choice) - a lot. I'm a skeptic, but now that I have some experience, I can see it being a real assistant in many cases. Yet the giant firm model is clearly unnecessary: /1
@matthewstoller@TheStalwart I need a specific kind of LLM with specific knowledge, not absolutely general. Why should we pay for Anthropic? Why not some LLM tailored to our stack? AI (LLMs) look like a new general-purpose tool, but most people's needs will be more specialized. /2
@DKThomp Disingenuous:
- The animus is to economists who demand to be followed
- There *are* villains - market power is real. Profiteering has to be curtailed
- Economic populists are not ignorant of economics. Political economists understand that politics is *baked into* "economics".
@SearchlightInst@MarcDunkelman Who actually advocates "abandon abundance in the name of attacking corporations"? That's a false characterization of the Brandeisians.
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@Chris_arnade "sophisticated"? Alchemists tinkered, made discoveries, but nothing systematic, they were driven by ideology not scientific method. The idea of continual improvement ("technology") was a slow development. read Jacques Ellul.
@matthewstoller I'm extremely angry. I don't even want to share all the reasons why; but I need to process it. It's necessary to moderate it to participate in society.