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4 experts · 20 posts · 4d ago

Phillip Carter austin h.olysh.it apenwarr.ca

apenwarr.ca: Alarmed at this trend of people finally realizing MCP is a pointless abstraction, then skipping right over publishing a regular boring API, and instead launching new CLIs for agents to use for some…

apenwarr.ca: I mean, it’s not *really* baffling. It’s Conway’s Law and the people who own the API wouldn’t listen to you and you weren’t allowed to publish a second API after people saw through the MCP trick, b…

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4 experts · 11 posts · 3d ago

Tim Kellogg Eli Sennesh Michiel Bontenbal apenwarr.ca

Tim Kellogg: one thing that’s becoming more obvious is that AI labs are not, in fact, fleecing their customers with extraordinarily high prices serving models actually does cost a lot

Michiel Bontenbal: interesting choice for y axis...

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4 experts · 6 posts · 5d ago

Ethan Mollick Chris Paxton jake apenwarr.ca

Ethan Mollick: I am confused about the belief that if open weights eventually dominate it will lead to the collapse of AI. If the Labs lose (which is not happening now), it isn’t because AI was useless: compute i…

apenwarr.ca: Could lead to a dotcom-level crash, which was giant but notably didn’t kill the whole Internet. Hardware providers, they suffered tremendously after the dotcom crash (see Nortel) because their buye…

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