> My primary concern is the risk that authoritarian governments—not solely the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), although the CCP is clearly the most capable threat—build AI models that are more powerful than those built by the US, and use them to achieve permanent military superiority or perpetrate incredibly deep repression of their own people.
That is not an argument against open weight models. That's just a generic protectionist argument against any Other lab.
> Crazy. Those same enterprises will get sticker shock and leave.
They are already. Both for sticker shock, and also because of developer sentiment beginning to shift towards Codex. …and then in a month or two the winds will shift again, I'm sure.
It's interesting to see how Claude Code got commoditized so quickly.
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> and they have the vastly better brand
Strong disagree there. Anthropic has pretty successfully branded themselves as the more ethical & 'human' of the two companies. (whether that's the actual reality is irrelevant)
I think a big part of the switching cost is the cost of learning a different model's nuances. Having good intuition for what works/doesn't, how to write effective prompts, etc.
Maybe someday future models will all behave similarly given the same prompt, but we're not quite there yet
Same here. Gemini really excels at all the "softer" parts of the development process (which, TBH, feels like most of the work). And Claude kicks ass at the actual code authoring.
That is not an argument against open weight models. That's just a generic protectionist argument against any Other lab.
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