Picasso apocryphally said "good artists copy, great artists steal"

> Imagine how they must feel about their work being deliberately copied wholesale and intentionally presented as someone else’s.

Nobody copies from a mid-tier product.

As someone who worked in open source till recently, I've seen a copycat as validation that my idea was better than what they could come up with on their own.

All those people now have evidence that their approach is the best for an AI native future.

The interesting point is that there is overlap in personnel, so this is less of copied homework, more that Anthropic hired some good people who knew a good solution that worked.

But from a pure AI lens, this is what we're doing - putting great ideas into one system and now everyone can drink from that well.

The bad part is that the well has a coin meter next to it, rather than it being a commons. So the fruits of that is not distributed to the people who planted those seeds. This is also happening too fast that the people whose work is getting redistributed to others are still not done being compensated for their work.