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There is an obvious shift in sentiment amongst users, at least here in the US. I feel it myself, even as a proponent of AI tools, the bloviating and language that these companies use in these release articles are starting to wear thin on my patience.

Its possible we might just be witnessing a shift in fashion, where this type of sentimentality was more acceptable when it was novel and new, but now it just appears out of touch.

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I don't agree at all for these coding models. Even the most anti-AI people from last year seem to be giving in to using them.

I think there is an exception for tooling around the models/integrating the models with tooling. That seems to have been very well received in this last year.

I am noticing a shift here too, those that were its biggest critics have gotten more silent, I guess they do have some small amount of self awareness and shame left, which is always a good thing.

My take from going through comments on HN is that many people are being mandated to use them, not that they are just giving in. Maybe I'm misreading, but that was my impression.

Both can be true, even for the same person.

For example, it's being pushed pretty hard where I'm at, though not quite on the tokenmaxxer level. I started skipping related meetings cause it was nauseating. I can only tolerate so many platitudes.

At the same time, I just used the ever living snot out of Opus 4.6 for hours, grinning like an idiot throughout. Automated a whole bunch of enterprise cross-system drudgery away.

Fairly constant over time as well. Expressed a similar sentiment not too long ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154277

Watch Christopher Olah bloviate at the Vatican during the Magnifica Humanatis launch. It's truly nauseating. I've never seen such a ridiculous speech in my life. Between him and the CEO, I'm starting to understand the level of arrogance these people are capable of.

Literally nothing in his speech was controversial though.

Strongly disagree. He sat in front of a room full of Archbishops and told them, straight faced, that the worlds about to have mass layoffs and starvation and that the Church should feel responsible for doing something about it. The guy's a complete sociopath.

He's not wrong. Mass layoffs and starvation are a problem society needs to solve collectively. The other side of the singularity will be great but we all bear a collective responsibility to get there in one piece.

> Mass layoffs and starvation are a problem society needs to solve collectively.

Very much disagree with this. This is capitalizing the profits and socializing the debts. They do not get to profit off of the suffering of others without repercussions, that is supposed to be what free markets prevent. This crony capitalist economy we have today with an explicit caste system in place, just pushes their debts onto you and I.

Destroying the economy and job market is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. If people do not have purchasing power they can't afford the product. The whole thing is destined to collapse.

But that is exactly his point. By "collective responsibility" he is saying that it's the public's responsibility to regulate and tax AI companies as needed, vs expecting them to self regulate. This has been Anthropic's stance the whole time.

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