We can definitively punish bigger companies. The issue is the geopolitical positioning, and basically agreeing that we accept smaller companies in our country / society while another country might develop bigger companies, and in theory have more power. Maybe more actual military power.
So unless it's a worldwide agreement, really hard to make this happen.
My best takeaway from the site was: Every time you see Claude Code / Codex doing something you don't want, ask it to add to AGENTS.md. Specially if they churn a lot doing something, and eventually find a way. I ask it to store the way it made something work. It's a constant gardening of AGENTS.md and it has really working well.
To be fair I’ve worked on human programmed systems where similar “it should be a half point story” requests would be met with snark by the engineers and take 2 sprints.
Also likely, devs took shortcuts to deliver fast. Now to make the button blue they need to differentiate primary buttons from others.
Simple, right? But design guidelines prevent one offs, and no !important. So you create a CSS class, but you discover another element on the header declared itself as primary (the search icon or the sign in button). You talk to that team and they decided to scope what’s primary according to their component. To change the sign in button to grey now you need to talk with the growth team. Growth team wants to run an experiment but they’re backlogged, only next quarter. They say you can innersource, just need VP approval. VP says blue matches a marketing campaign that is about to go out, agency has already been hired. You can’t talk to the agency unless Legal approves.
So you leave the button gray, to revisit decision next planning cycle after you can align all stakeholders.
No, embargoed news is super common. Almost every single product announcement goes through that. Critics watch movies early, companies have access to LLM model improvements early, car manufacturers send production models early… it happens everywhere all the time.
The NPM ecosystem is huge, but it's also full of poorly-coded crap, rife with vulerabilites, subject to supply-chain risks, etc.
And much of its convenience comes from the fact that it has a huge set of off-the-shelf libraries for doing things that are properly part of your higher-level business logic, rather than lower-level foundation code, anyway -- those kinds of libraries are popular because they maximize developer velocity, not because they should be third-party dependencies.
The kind of stuff that makes sense to include as libraries, e.g. code dealing with foundation-level building blocks, like standard encryption algorithms, audio and video codecs, compression, etc. is exactly where the reference implementations and baseline libraries are all in C in the first place.
The point here is that, ultimately, C won't take longer if you're using an LLM. Eventually, you'll get more performant, more secure code targeting the lowest level possible, and mucking around with stuff like NPM is what will both slow you down and produce worse results.
No, it has happened to almost every other "sota" model before. There used to be a meme with a circular arrow going through Anthropic, OpenAI, Google as a hype circle. Now we can drop Google and add a couple of Chinese companies.
It's not an explanation of why it happens, I am just pointing Fable is not an exception, it has happened with almost every other model release by all these companies over the last 2-3 years.
So unless it's a worldwide agreement, really hard to make this happen.
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