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by watwut 9 days ago
So, the whole brouhaha was so that Anthropic can write this blog post?
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> So, the whole brouhaha was so that Anthropic can write this blog post?

Remember mythos ? I was half-expecting them to scare us with a new danger: How AI can covert code into other languages, and confuse the hell out of all of us.

> So, the whole brouhaha was so that Anthropic can write this blog post?

This was suspected from the start. The PR was always going to be merged, and Anthropic was going to have their success story. Any lip service paid to "well maybe we'll merge it and maybe we won't, I dunno yet" was just that: lip service.

yes the whole thing was partially a big marketing stunt
So much complaints about wasting of energy for AI, yet how much energy does such a meaningless comment waste?
Not much, this was both accurate comment and easy to make comment.

And it is good for mental health - it allows us to express the distaste for Anthropic in a healhy way.

Goomba fallacy