So should we revolt

I’ve been using it for a few days. Not a mind blowing upgrade so far.

Yeah there are historical echoes for sure with "arms control" but this isn't the same fight, not by a long-shot. AI models are inherently centralizing tech; they asymmetrically benefit those with the most concentration of energy. Crypto is decentralizing, it asymmetrically benefits everyone. What exactly are we to "fight" for here? Dario Amodei's ascendency to trillionaire status?

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What are you saying? Many models are open weighs. Anyone with sufficient inference resources can run them. You CANNOT do everything worth doing fully decentralized anyway.

"Many models" sure, and yet every serious Dev here pays $200/mo for Claude Middle Earth or whatever. And yes, decentralization / centralization is a balance... Economies of scale are real and not everything should be completely atomized. But the whole of the US economy being propped up by 2 or 3 companies is IMHO "too centralized"

The only solution is for people to grow a conscience and just fully open source the models.

Lately I use minimax 2.7 under opencode increasingly to do everything I did under $200/mo (which I was gifted) Claude Code.

Great to hear! Eventually it will become this, once the AI bubble crashes and "frontier model" prices go through the roof, people will be strongly incentivized to use smaller, local, purpose-driven models... I think the era of "one big model" that's expected to be able to do everything from research shoe brands to debug an enterprise Web stack, is hopefully coming to an end.