So Anthropic degraded their product. OAI updated their product to meet for exceeded Anthropic old product.

This is normal behavior and not a cause for such a hyperbolic response.

There is good competition and bad competition.

Pricing your product unsustainably vs a competitor to gain market share is regarded as "bad competition" and has historically been seen as anticompetitive.

It does not benefit the consumer in the long run, because the goal is to use your increased funding or cash reserve to wipe your competition out of the market, decreasing competition in the long term.

Then, once your competition is gone, and you've entrenched yourself, you do a rug pull.

you're right but for now it doesn't matter if both competitors are running on infinite vc money, we as consumers benefit from it. it only matters if they cause negative externalities in the meantime

To be clear, unsustainably hemorrhaging money to gain marketshare over a competitor is generally considered an anticompetitive practice.

What if both competitors are doing it?

It’s also THE playbook of the Silicon Valley.

Also why there’s so much enthusiasm for it on HN

No picture of the van but plenty of ads.

And plenty of AI Slop.

They have been, if you compare them to the performance of the non-US market, and most software companies are declining daily.

Would imagine they are a lot happier than all the doom, filth, and brain rot that is spewn all over social media.

I miss the days when the lowest common denominator did not have the largest bullhorn.

I consume very little social media these days, but when I take a short peek, here is what I see:

1.) Hockey highlights 2.) LoTR memes 3.) kittens

While the addictive nature of social media is a problem, what you're describing is only being fed to people who want to watch it (kinda like legacy media).

Which media org was bought for this?

Are you being sarcastic due to Elon buying Twitter to own/control the conversation? He would be a poster child for the bad actions you are describing.

Very cool! An improvement for version 2.0 would be to add the ability to filter by ball type: two-piece, swing speed, and cover. This would provide users with better insight into pricing.

That's a good idea. Thanks for the suggestion. I'll look into expanding the filters to be more useful and allow some more granularity.

You were robbed last night. No way Jelly Roll should have won.

I love you for this reference lol

I hate how I’ve had a web site with my name on it since 2008 and when you google my name verbatim it says “did you mean Tyler Childers”

Such shade from the algorithm, I get it, I get it, software is lamer than music.

Appeasing a moron with a shiny, valuable object is low effort. Covering up and adding a backdoor to Apple's widely used iOS is not in the same ballpark.

They don't need a backdoor. They can push whatever update to the OS they want. They have a front door.

Is it really that surprising that a vast majority of people don't work a job that is not better than doing whatever they want whenever they want?