Extropic founder Guillaume Verdon amplified claims that Anthropic has effectively sidelined outside machine learning researchers, framing the lab's moves as a deliberate shorting of external career paths and a way to concentrate power inside its own walls. Independent researcher Cody Blakeney publicly backed the critique, suggesting spite could serve as fresh motivation for those feeling shut out.
Anthropic MTS's to every ML researchers outside their team: "F*ck you. Get rugged. Give up."
They literally just engineered their downfall. Literally every researcher has been shorted by them now.
mythos beating and dragging back ML researchers into the permanent underclass as they were trying to escape, only a few will make it to the promised land of anthropic
you can hear their screams on the timeline
No public record yet shows the specific Anthropic decision or policy change that set off the accusations of a rug pull, leaving the precise timing and details open even as the X thread spreads.
Cody Blakeney's reply turned the slight into a rallying cry, positioning resentment itself as a practical driver for researchers who now see fewer paths outside the biggest labs.
Many users approve of channeling spite or hate against Anthropic as research motivation while others criticize its alleged monopolistic and unethical behavior.
Message to all ML researchers feeling slighted / insulted by Anthropic right now:
mythos beating and dragging back ML researchers into the permanent underclass as they were trying to escape, only a few will make it to the promised land of anthropic
you can hear their screams on the timeline
jokes aside this is a good opportunity for google and openai to release something and make it public
@tekbog you don't hear about open models much anymore
@tekbog Google is betting Anthropic runs out of runway and they can simply out build them in data centers. Just magiced up $80 billion on a random Thursday as a warm up.
@tekbog The screams were promised to them two models ago;
@tekbog @a_musingcat if OpenAI is serious about "AGI for everyone" then they should release one that helps with frontier AI research
and for people without 150 IQ they should also let it tell us how to make drugs in our bathtubs
@tekbog ai is the messiah, the promised land is utopia on earth, it was never a specific geography. the people of israel are good folks with awakened hearts
@beffjezos 🫡
Message to all ML researchers feeling slighted / insulted by Anthropic right now:
@tekbog that’s not accurate. it means they still have jobs while regular SWE get automated
@tekbog
@tekbog every once in a while these larp accounts larp about the wrong thing, forcing you check what they've actually done.
> looks inside > tasteless slop
every. time.
@tekbog Microsoft laid off 15k while dropping $18.5B in India. The promised land has a moat now.
@HououinTyouma @tekbog only in the red light district of the internet
@tekbog "we should all agree to stop frontier model development"
@HououinTyouma @tekbog We should make our own open models
@tekbog Even Karpathy was afraid.
@tekbog =(
@tekbog it's actually too late we've already done it
@tekbog don't worry, even china will figure it out
Extropic founder Guillaume Verdon amplified claims that Anthropic has effectively sidelined outside machine learning researchers, framing the lab's moves as a deliberate shorting of external career paths and a way to concentrate power inside its own walls. Independent researcher Cody Blakeney publicly backed the critique, suggesting spite could serve as fresh motivation for those feeling shut out.
Anthropic MTS's to every ML researchers outside their team: "F*ck you. Get rugged. Give up."
They literally just engineered their downfall. Literally every researcher has been shorted by them now.
mythos beating and dragging back ML researchers into the permanent underclass as they were trying to escape, only a few will make it to the promised land of anthropic
you can hear their screams on the timeline
