> To counter point, do you think AI companies located on our adversaries turf will take the same stand?

I guess if we are going this way, we might already start building camps for the undesirables, since our adversaries will surely do that too.

They are literally doing what China has already done. In what world would China be a better option here?

Yes, this is more accurate. They are trying to rein in big corporations and make them bend the knee before the government.

tl;dr: All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.

You can believe that only if you don't care about getting a revolution in your country or extreme populist movements gaining traction. When large numbers of people feel economically disposable, the issue stops being about an individual firm’s right to hire and fire and starts becoming a systemic stability problem.

But if you are okay with getting some heads chopped off with a guillotine from time to time, feel free to believe that.

You sound like you are laying blame at the feet of companies following employment laws when you should be complaining to the government that makes the employment laws the company is abiding by.

If firms laying off employs they have no use for causing a stability problem then you do indeed have a systemic stability problem which need much deeper fixes than any one firm can provide.

Are you arguing for or against capitalism here?

Or "rubberducking" as it's called now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

Insert Michael Scott shouting "I AM DECLARING BANKRUPTCY" meme. Change that to "I AM TAKING RESPONSIBILITY".

I would even say it's likely the opposite. My output as a programmer is now much higher than before, but I am losing my programming skills with each use of claude code.

This is a simplistic view of why the prices are the way they are.

Between this, and whatever Claude has been doing lately, like giving the AI the ability to just disconnect if it dislikes your prompt, I really hope more people realize that local LLMs are where it's at.

> I really hope more people realize that local LLMs are where it's at

No worries, the AI companites thought ahead - by sending GPU, RAM, and now even harddrive prices through the roof, you won't have a computer to run a local model.

> I really hope more people realize that local LLMs are where it's at.

Maybe if you have the tens of thousands worth of hardware required to run models like DeepSeek, GLM or Kimi locally. Most people don't, though.

Why do most people need large language models?

And as far as I understand, the main contingent of HN is engineers, programmers, and even me, who works in a country (Russia) where the salary of an engineer is just tiny compared to Europe or the United States, it was not difficult to buy powerful enough equipment to run most large local models, train lora, then programmers who earn income in six-digit dollars it's even easier to do this.

Have you hit that? I thought it was only in extreme cases when Claude felt uncomfortable, like awful heavy psychological coercion. They wanted Claude not to be forced to reply endlessly.