alt Hacker News> Eventually I’ll reach a point where I am forced to choose between the useful aspects of the model and the limiting ones instead of just picking the most capable model out there
No, the choice will be whether or not to to upgrade to "Claude Security Professional" or whatever they want to brand it as.
What look like tightening "constraints" today are just setting up the upsell opportunities of tomorrow.
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> What look like tightening "constraints" today are just setting up the upsell opportunities of tomorrow.
I don't buy this, because is predicated on staying permanently far ahead of the open weights models.
If in the future Anthropic fully stops you from doing security research, you can be sure some other provider will sell you an 'unshackled' DeepSeek v8 Pro...
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>What look like tightening "constraints" today are just setting up the upsell opportunities of tomorrow.
on the one hand agree, but on the other hand think it's reasonable in that they can then verify the person allowed to purchase access to that model is in fact a Security professional and should be allowed to do stuff like crack security.
And next month you'll need to add on "Claude Database Pro" or you'll just get a working (for demo purposes with dozens of db rows) but completely un indexed database schema and a refusal to optimise SQL requests.
And the month after you'll need "Claude DataScience Pro" to get any Python Pandas or NumPy code generated.
And and and...