A government letter arrived at Anthropic on Friday. By the evening, hundreds of millions of people lost access to a model they were building on.
Nobody in that group did anything wrong.
They just rented capability from a company that got an order from the Commerce Department.
Here's the uncomfortable question for any CTO.
What in your engineering stack can be switched off by a third party with no notice and no recourse?
If the answer is "the model my team depends on," you have a single point of failure you don't control and can't fix.
Owned capability sits with people. Your engineers, or a team embedded in your stack who treat your roadmap as theirs. Models come and go.
The judgment to route around the outage is the asset.
CTOs we worked with proved this.
Each one took their Limestone team to their next company.
The model changed every quarter. The team didn't.
Banning Anthropic's latest model would push everyone to adopt open-source models, which are lagging behind flagship proprietary models by only 3 months.
You can't rely on external models and risk your access revoked at a whim.
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@daniel_mac8 What are the chances it’s an orchestrated PR stunt where Anthropic investor Amazon knew damn well how to trigger the regulator and did it on purpose to jerk off their IPO-PR?
High/Extra High or Max….?
@OpenAI what happened to Deep Research?! It was spectacular and now it’s trash that pulls reports out of its own a$$ and pretends it’s actual DR work. When asked it says “I started the Deep Research app/widget after one failed call, but I did not actually complete the research.”
Jews are simultaneously an inferior race of cowards, but also an all-powerful shadow government controlling the entire planet. Pick a lane. Every single conspiracy theory contradicts each other. I’m embarrassed for you at this point.