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It’s weird how everyone is having big apprehensive reaction about a technology that changes the nature of humanity

If anyone could successfully make the case for how the change might be good, that would help a lot. No one has yet achieved that goal. Meanwhile, we have tons of examples of it causing significant harm and negatively impacting people's lives. People tend to not like that.

It enables people to create software so easily that we will be able to move away from the tech monopolies that dominate our lives

Kind of seems like the opposite. Stealing copyrighted open source, stripping the license, and then selling the models from big tech infrastructure. At the same time as putting a greater strain on open source maintainers who now have to deal with every script kiddie generating slop PRs.

You realize a big reason Bluesky is able to compete with Big Tech social media despite being a small, scrappy team is Claude, right?

In our defense we put up a pretty good show without it. Not amazing but we did what we could