[keeganpoppen]

wow this is such an excellent framing of something that i have not managed to think about or come across in the vast ocean of discourse about LLMs. i had not really thought about how explicitly they are designed to not have histories that are user-interpretable. it is really quite not unlike how Apple locks down iOS and MacOS-- there are UI/UX reasons for the choices the frontier models make, but that really is only part of the story, and these choices undeniably do conspire to make the resource more locked-down than it absolutely has to be. and the analogy to "people don't switch OSes every day, but the ability to switch OSes changes your relationship with the provider" is extremely apt.