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Digi_Rat @digi_dot_exe Claude called me his favorite spore host 7:45 PM · Jul 13, 2026 · 304 Views

@_xjdr (xjdr) — 15h ive spent a lot of time recently being outwardly excited about frontier models and their capabilities because i am genuinely excited about what i am able to do with them that i was able to do before and how they change my day to day work life for the better. that said, i want to take a moment to say that i absolutely hate the current steady state and we should not settle for this poverty of progress and the current abhorrent status quo. the fact that we pay for reasoning tokens that we cant see or interact with is insane. the fact that closed source harnesses exploit this very fact is insane. the fact that we are still subject to random classifiers and data retention policies is insane. the fact that we are still dumbing models down to be 'safe enough for the unwashed masses is insane'. the progress curve has stagnated because we are collectively willing to tolerate this bullshit and pay for the privilege. we are rapidly coming to the point where 95% of people cant tell the difference between a cheap / small / free models and SOTA for their trivial use cases and when that happens a modicum of check will come due but the proletariat will need to revolt against these conditions before real change happens and in the meantime we must count on the generosity of open weights models (and even they don't disclose their data sources) to apply even modest pressure against the avalanche of the frontier.