It's the South Korea model and road, people are working hard to chase constantly and quickly moving goal of securing extremely expensive home, basic setup for having the family. But process itself is exhausting and depleting.

That's completely and absolutely fine, if you are millionaire and/or have other well paid job then.. well done, congratulations and enjoy your newly found hobby.

BUT - I'm capable to tinker with my car a bit, to service and repair my bike, to bake a bread - BUT I'm not visiting mechanic shops, bike service shops and bakeries in my city telling owners that they should work for free and give away results of their work.

And yet you have certainly used and enjoyed software published by others free of charge, and your employer, company or favorite service has relied on it. Your career may even be entirely dependent on it.

If you demand remuneration for all your work, then it's only fair for you to also pay for every single piece of software you ever use. If OTOH you're willing to trade some of your time and effort for the time and effort someone else spent on the software you enjoy for free, then you might appreciate that a financial transaction is not required for value to be created in the world. What is required is fair collaboration.

I can do it, but where are the details of affiliate program?

Yes that's correct, but in doing so remember that only person that cares most about you and your health is YOU - doctor cares about you for 10-15min, then next patient is waiting, and the level of doctor's care is inversely proportional to the level of burnout.

Yes, that's another issue - CS/IT seems to be unique that sharing knowledge and openly discussing problems is the norm, in other professions you can get finger wagging and some general "advice"

This is actually business opportunity for WP/Automattic - they could introduce vetted plugins where plugin author and/or consumer pays for review service.

Now only thing missing is leadership, development and active maintenance of the project for at least 5+ years - and keeping it and ecosystem around it fair and open (to some degree at least) because that whats allows WP to last for so long, it's not zero sum game.

For such rich and resourceful corp like Cloudflare surely this isn't a problem and they are going to overview, maintain and steward the project for a long, long time. Surely.

There's still plenty of "leave my fellow multbillion corp alone" type ones,it means that corp can and should screw it's loving customer base harder.

The investors are their customers - not the users of the end-product.

Early investors make money when later investors buy them out at inflated valuations.

Well sure, all market signals should be considered. As a casual observer, my received signals have been indicating that AI is getting sold at a loss to get market share, and more recent signals have indicated that users are really really sensitive to both costs and performance.

The weakest signal to me is investor money, because when you think of it, investors are betting on a future that may or may not be there. Heck even trends aren't guaranteed, "past performance is no guarantee etc etc"

Have you seen the business models for these companies? Literal underpants gnome memes. OpenAI's goes like this:

1. Build AGI

2. Use said AGI to tell us how to become profitable

3. Profit!

Anthropic seems to be going all in on enterprise sales. Which means they don't actually have to please customers, or it's what ThePrimeagen humorously calls a "yacht problem"—a problem that only needs a solution after the IPO. For now all they have to do is convince corporate leadership that this is the future of work and sow enough FOMO to close those sales contracts and their projected sales, and stock valuation, goes through the roof.

Of course that value will collapse if they go without delivering on their promises long enough. That's why they call it a bubble. But by then, hopefully, Dario and the early investors will be long gone and even richer than they were to start. Their only competitor, OpenAI, is confronted with the same issues: the scalability problems won't go away, and addressing them doesn't drive stock valuation the way promising high rollers that AGI and total workforce automation are just around the corner does.

It doesn't matter if it is in Anthropic's interest to screw its customer base, if their reported monthly revenue growth is accurate then it makes perfect sense why Claude would be getting dumber...

Demand is way up and compute supply is extremely limited because data center buildouts can't keep up with demand.

In the face of rising demand and insufficient compute their only practical options (other than refusing new business until demand can be met) are signicantly raising the price of tokens (and more tighly limiting subscription options) or doing behind the scenes inference optimizations that are likely to make the model dumber.

It is very easy to believe that they took the route of inference optimizations that have reduced quality of the service and that that is where the perceived enshittification is coming from.

Good one, at last, April fools joke with some effort.

> Are there more people whose work on a project has been taken away by AI bots?

Of course, what worked me and what allows me to keep my sanity in my case of project owner coming in and remodeling half of the codebase over the weekend with CC is that I mentally ceded "ownership" of the project code, that is, I'm no longer feeling that I'm responsible for what is there and how it is structured. And there are tests.

Apart from that I can say that I empathize with you because I know that initially it feels awful, like loosing some part of agency and also to some degree humiliating when looking that something carefully and meticulously designed is restructured, replaced or thrown away so quickly and carelessly. What also helps is changing mental model and perceiving oneself as controller who overviews process of "shaping" code as whole, in its big mass, to behave in certain way instead of keeping mentally attached to some part of it because "I designed it".

>when looking that something carefully and meticulously designed is restructured, replaced or thrown away so quickly and carelessly.

That’s just a trend that has been accelerating for a while now. Make things quick, quality and longevity are qualities of the past. Is better to give a bad solution quickly than having to stop to think.