Competing and innovating in the fast moving SOTA end of the llm space requires a ruthless disregard for copyright, IP, bureaucracies, formalities, risk assurances and other slowdowns. It requires a risk tolerant, quick and large flowing investment of capital. It requires a scoped focus that is pragmatic and sharp about key concerns, and efficiently dismissive of meaningless details.
Europe can provide none of this. They will never be at the frontier of AI tech, for the same reason they were never at the frontier of any tech.
Sounds very interesting - I've been using just & docker (-compose) to manage my monorepo projects after a short frustrating stint with moon&proto. I like the simplicity of just, but onboarding can still be cumbersome, especially across platforms.
How do we know this is even what really happened?
There was a big wave of complaints on Reddit about Claude's output quality, and reports of subscription cancellations piled up.
Many people suspect some form of load optimization and/or quantized models, or other cost-optimization strategies that were applied as the cause for degradation in intelligence.
Seems like the complaints became loud enough for Anthropic to bother looking into it. But with zero transparency, zero additional info around the issue, it's hard to trust Anthropic not to continue to silently optimize for cost.
Why pay $200 a month if your "productivity boost" can randomly turn into lobotomized output overnight?
Qualify it to software, rather than all tech, if you will.