Post by @dielan@shitposter.world

2026-10-09 23:40 UTC

@mrsaturday@shitposter.world @sun@shitposter.world I heard a fun theory the other day on a podcast that suggested the reason all the frontier model companies are calling for a slowdown - aside from obvious IPO collusion shenanigans - is the fact that the latest models aren't substantially smarter than the previous. Which is why Anthropic specifically lobotomizes it's old versions to set high expectations of the newest models when they release. Meaning - local models will eventually catch up, and all the development most recently has been in harnesses rather than the model. Doing more with what they have and putting it behind a subscription. The frontier model companies are trying to get their shit together so harnesses like Hermes, Pi, and Opencode for example don't overtake them. I would expect some time in the future they'll try to lock you into their own harness and stop letting you use an API key in a different harness soon.

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@sun@shitposter.world 2026-10-09 23:43

@dielan@shitposter.world @mrsaturday@shitposter.world I'm gonna try to get hermes working with a local model again today, perhaps qwen3.8 flash

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@mrsaturday@shitposter.world 2026-10-09 23:43

@dielan@shitposter.world @sun@shitposter.world I think it's a bog-standard case of regulatory capture. They're plateauing and want to entrench themselves, and what better way to do it than to run to an ignorant Congress and scream about how the sky is falling, and how they need to make an agency and laws to act as filters guardrails?

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@mangeurdenuage@shitposter.world 2026-10-10 12:28

@dielan@shitposter.world @mrsaturday@shitposter.world @sun@shitposter.world >Which is why Anthropic specifically lobotomizes it's old versions to set high expectations of the newest models when they release. Deja vue with search engines.

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