I loved this post. Awesome commitment to users. Breath of fresh air.

Then build it yourself. They do work for free, give it to the world, and your response is: do it differently the way I want.

Tone.

All of the api calls developers used to build agentic design patterns.

I have encountered this too. I am building a coding harness for www.propelcode.app and it was working really well until the claude code leak and then all of the sudden it seems almost intentionally stupid or outright manipulative in guiding me down wrong paths. At this point I am using other models for anything related to the tool use design and implementation and bought three mac studios with 512gb ram to run large open source models.

This experience has made me feel like we have to create a community that moves AI from the mainframe era to the PC era quickly, or we will end up serfs.

I am building a coding harness, and I see evidence of them doing this with agentic harnesses and scaffolding. It feels clear to me that as they expand in to the app layer, the window of using their API to build agentic apps is closing, they will steal your ideas, implement the product and then close the gate. I am creating my own inference stack because their incentive to block competitors is becoming super clear.

No offense, but the sad thing is, everyone and their mother is working on this same problem. I'm also building a harness. It's feeling like, there is no moat, there is no way to get ahead, they will steal your idea one way or another, if you ever make it public.

No offense taken. I am not building it for fame or profit.

I built it because I wanted cursor on my phone because I have two small kids and don’t want to be chained to my desk. And it’s awesome. It’s a full ide with agent chat, terminal and file system running in a remote Linux container. I can review diffs, fully manage git and preview/serve apps. And no one can ever take it away from me :)

I am watching the way things are progressing with the ai api vendors and it feels really clear that depending on them will soon be dangerous. So I an furiously building as much of my own infrastructure to capture some autonomy with these capabilities

So I think everyone should build a harness.

Exactly, that is my goal and thoughts as well. I wish you the best in these crazy times. Let's ride this wave.

What, exactly, is new about any of this?

When they launched their business model was to be a pure API for intelligence. Then when everyone claimed they were just commodities with no moat and they shifted hard to being the app layer. That was the transition.

They went from selling shovels to all gold prospectors to stealing the information about the location of the gold so they could dig it out first.

We are all stupid enough to keep buying shovels from them because we think their shovels dig gold better and faster.

Or, they may Mythos seem mystically powerful in advance of the IPO, and are pumping the token use count. But it worked, there is a frenzy for this release in way that is more intense than any previous release.

Anthropic is doing a better job with their model menu, most people I talk to know immediately that Opus > Sonnet > Haiku but cant tell you what the rank order of open ai models are, when to use them, etc.

ding ding ding. This should be a new measure of anticompetitive analysis in anti trust law.

I think his use of crocodile tears is appropriate, anthropic is feigning a false sense of concern for safety when really it is anticompetitive behavior, and I think that selfish entitlement is related to the original act of intellectual property theft to use the worlds training data, most of which was not public domain, to distill the wisdom for their models. So why do they get to cry about people distilling the knowledge from their models that they themselves distilled from the worlds knowledge?

Compare the cost/ease of attacker vs defender if one person is given a virus to unleash anywhere in the world and another person is given a vaccine to distribute to the whole world. Or compare building a large bridge to someone disabling that bridge, etc. Prevention and repair is almost always more expensive than vandalism.

I don't think there's an ideal solution here, but giving trusted people access to fix security issues before giving it to the wider public seems like a reasonable compromise. They're letting you use the model for all other uses.