No. I figured it was almost completely if not completely about OpenAI. These things tend to be quite lengthy and I do not have an hour to devote to reading things that don’t directly impact me or my family of profession these days.
I mean he quit what he considered to be a problematic company, founded another one, that one’s models refused to do things that the previous company would do, then his new company refused to do the US government’s evil bidding while the other company happily went along with it.
> I mean he quit what he considered to be a problematic company
Problematic why though? For the reasons publicly stated? Then why isn’t Anthropic just what OpenAI was “supposed” to be then? We know what that was from their charter, and Anthropic is not that.
> then his new company refused to do the US government’s evil bidding while the other company happily went along with it
You’re sure about that are you? I don’t see how you possibly could be, unless you’ve taken the PR at face value, before it was all quietly swept away under the next headline.
What part is incorrect? Amodei never said that AI models should not be used for military purposes, did he? He said that they shouldn't be used for autonomous weapons, and then he backed up the talk with action.
I have other beefs with Amodei, including his pathetic, mewling appeals for regulatory capture and his forehead-slapping hypocrisy on copyright and ToS enforcement, but this seemed like a case where he was legitimately on the right side of the question and had the moral courage to stand by his position.
For kicks and giggles and because my wife was born in Yugoslavia I bought Yugoslavia.org a few years ago. Would like to do something meaningful with it.
Just select one of the 5 successor states to Yugoslavia, forward all traffic to their ministry of foreign affairs, and then enjoy the heartfelt exchange of brotherly love and munitions that ensues!
This is not just OpenAI though. I don’t think this is new in general for these AI chat apps. Claude at the very least asks a question as the last part of its responses I believe every time.
It gave me a very wrong intro starting lesson number after saying I was second from the most advanced level and answering 26/26 of the intro questions correctly. It was showing me things like what does the 1st most common verb mean, etc. Just FYI.
I mean you just have to look at all of the things that have been blocked by the courts in the last year. Deportations without access to counsel, federalized national guards, a variety of interim appointments...
And before you go there, yes, I am aware the administration has ignored court orders and played dumb afterward. That doesn't mean they've successfully ignored most judicial decisions.
This is definitely Barbara Streisanding right now. I had never heard of OpenCode. But I sure have now! Will have to check it out. Doubt I’ll end up immediately canceling Claude Code Max, but we’ll see.
I don’t know if the Streisand Effect is relevant here since Anthropic will block any other uses of their private APIs, not just OpenCode. The private Claude Code API was never advertised nor sold as a general purpose API for use with any tool.
OpenCode is an interesting tool but if this is your first time hearing of it you should probably be aware of their recent unauthenticated RCE issues and the slow response they’ve had to fixing it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46581095 They say they’re going to do better in the future but it’s currently on my list of projects to keep isolated until their security situation improves.
Imo I don't trust ANY of these tools to run in non-isolated environments.
All of these tools are either
- created by companies powered by VC money that never face consequences for mishandling your data
- community vibecoded with questionable security practices
These tools also need to have a substantial amount of access to be useful so it is really hard to secure even if you try. Constantly prompting for approval leads to alert fatigue and eventually a mistake leading to exfiltration.
I suggest just stick to LXC or VM. Desktop (including linux) userland security is just bad in general. I try to keep most random code I download for one off tasks to containers.
Incus is great for this use case, I did something similar. I volume mount specific stuff into the guests and let OpenCode loose with all tools enabled.
I used OpenCode to vibe code the shell script I use to manage it.
I actually use VMs rather than LXC, which makes it easier to run e.g. docker.
I might go back and give it a try! It would certainly save some ram.
I immediately reached for VMs because I just didn't want any question about the full level of isolation, but the cool thing about incus is that it should be easy to switch between them.
OpenCode is kind of a security disaster though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46581095. To be clear, I know all software has bugs, including security bugs. But that wasn't an obscure vulnerability, that was "our entire dev team fundamentally has no fucking clue what they're doing, and our security reporting and triage process is nonexistent". No way am I entrusting production code and secrets to that.
So is Claude. They nuked everyone's claude app a few days ago by pushing a shoddy changelog that crashed the app during init. Team literally doesnt understand how to implement try...catch. The thing clearly was vibe coded into existence.
agreed. This is definitely free PR for OpenCode. I didn't try it myself until I heard the kerfuffle around Anthropic enforcing their ToS. It definitely has a much nicer UX than claude-code, so I might give the GPT subscription a shot sometime, given that it's officially supported w/ 3rd party harnesses, and gpt 5.2 doesn't appear to be that far behind Opus (based on what other people say).
Very cool. Was thinking about working onthis myself after moving in a house 4 months ago with these to all of a sudden ahve to replace them for no good reason.
> If it is used a certain way by enough people, that is also an accepted definition.
This mentality seems to be prevalent in the USA, in Germany, on the opposite, many people see this topic differently - just because a lot of people use a certain word/term wrong does not make it right.
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