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Maybe Anthropic is just testing the waters to see what they can get away with. Left unchallenged (court, charge back, whatever) why change course?

The open models cannot be taken away. Anyone with the right hardware can host these. Unlike the API/subscription services where you can be banned from, may have drastic price increases or reduction of their limits.

The open models may not be as great but maybe these are good enough. AI users can switch when the prices rise before it becomes sustainable for (some) of the large LLM providers.

Isn't there a difference between: distilling specific AI input/output vs scraping whatever random AI output (with unknown input)?

Alright, if you do build something I hope you share it here. I'm always looking forward to any image editing/processing apps or techniques.

I'm interested in tools (or blog posts about this) for image editing apps. Would you mind sharing what you've build?

The cost for AI companies might be $5000 but the "essentially free" could be close to the limit of what people are willing to spend. If that's the case then enshittification will continue and/or many AI companies will never be profitable.

Inference for API or subscriptions? There is a massive price difference between the two.

Perhaps the subscription part of the business is so heavily subsidized that they have no choice but to reduce the cost.

If Claude Code truly was worth something they'd sell it instead of forcing its use with a subscription.

Check out reddit with subreddits like /r/INAT, /r/gameideas or /r/gamedesign.

Or Look at where artists hang out. This could be pixel art forums. Also contact artists that you admire directly (would need to show something here and not merely an idea obviously). Paying for an artist is also worth considering if that's an option.

You don't have to go at it alone, share your idea(s) and get a pixel artist to join.

Think about how much time you invested in to learning programming. If you're not prepared to do the same for art it's better to get someone else to do it. Especially if you don't enjoy it.

While a good post the title is a bit ambiguous. The post is about applications created using AI not applications with AI functionality embedded.

> approximate any continuous function

It wouldn't surprise me if many interesting functions we'd like to approximate aren't continuous at all.

Surely they aren't selling subscriptions at a loss to gain market share either.

They could allow unlocking the phone by burying that option deep in the settings with scary warnings etc. Most people could use the device with the restrictions. The fact that this is not possible at all is greed.

If they believe a sufficient number is locked in then they may consider doing this later.

If Claude Code is so much better why not make users pay to use it instead of forcing it on subscribers?

Even if it would work good luck writing with a new style.

Given how Anthropic changes Claude Code and forces everyone with a subscription to use it (if you pay much more with the API you can avoid it). I think it's fair to say that Claude Code is not an asset but a liability.

Agreed I also like to see more support for MingW especially from open source projects. Not even a passing mention in this blog post.

If tooling really is an advantage why isn't it possible to use the API with a subscription and save money?

That's for the API right? The subs are still a loss. I don't know which one of the two is larger.

RAM got a little more expensive lately for some reason.

It's not a bug it's a feature (for Anthropic).

Didn't Google refuse adding JpegXL because they claimed there wasn't enough interest? I don't think they refused out of security concerns but maybe I'm misremembering that.

Not quite. The ads themselves aren't deleted but only not displayed for a subset of keywords. If the ads were deleted no keyword would be able to show these.

This website appears to be very AI heavy in articles. I think it's fair to say these articles are biased because of that.

You don't have to win from a megacorp. Just add a bit of friction to some of their actions. Many small frictions do stack up.

Someone correct me if I'm mistaken but don't CAD programs rely on a geometric modeling kernel? From what I understand this part is incredibly hard to get right and the best implementations are proprietary. No LLM is going to be able to get to that level anytime soon.