It’s sort of surprising how naive developers still are given the countless rug pulls over the past decade or two.
You’re right on the money: the important thing to look at are the incentive structures.
Basically all tech companies from the post-great financial crisis expansion (Google, post Balmer Microsoft, Twitter, Instagram, Airbnb, Uber, etc) started off user-friendly but all eventually converged towards their investment incentive structure.
One big exception is Wikipedia. Not surprising since it has a completely different funding model!
I’m sure Anthropic is super user friendly now, while they are focused on expansion and founding devs still have concentrated policial sway. It will eventually converge on its incentive structures to extract profit for shareholders like all other companies.
You’re right on the money: the important thing to look at are the incentive structures.
Basically all tech companies from the post-great financial crisis expansion (Google, post Balmer Microsoft, Twitter, Instagram, Airbnb, Uber, etc) started off user-friendly but all eventually converged towards their investment incentive structure.
One big exception is Wikipedia. Not surprising since it has a completely different funding model!
I’m sure Anthropic is super user friendly now, while they are focused on expansion and founding devs still have concentrated policial sway. It will eventually converge on its incentive structures to extract profit for shareholders like all other companies.