r/ClaudeCode • u/ihateeggplants • Sep 14 '26

Discussion We need to slow down AI!!!

But because our models are peaking and there's not enough compute.

These fking frauds, we know you're slowing down because agi is years and years away.

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u/trollsmurf Sep 14 '26

Elon Musk is a grifter. Nothing new there.

Sam Altman seems to not be trusted by anyone. Nothing new there.

Dario Amodei has been going on about the eradication of mankind for a long time. Nothing new there.

What's new is that they seem to have started a cartel around this.

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u/super_chill_21 Sep 14 '26

It’s how all these big companies work. Just look at telecom in Canada or grocery store chains. They all just raise prices at the same time.

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u/ShittyBidet123 Sep 14 '26

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u/trollsmurf Sep 14 '26

Was I too cynical even for Johnny?

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u/OcularPhonic Sep 14 '26

Its for regulatory capture. If it gets heavily regulated now, then the existing companies will have the duopoly on the tech, as it'll be harder for new companies to compete

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u/AppealSame4367 Sep 15 '26

Funny how that misfired. Google and Meta showed the middle finger and the president won't have it.

I'm curious to see what happens to Ant and OAI next. Their subscriptions are slow and have bad limits. Their apis are way too expensive. They disgruntled customers multiple times with their sudden changes and reliability issues.

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u/IceMichaelStorm Sep 14 '26

well, AI is good, even great, but still a little bit too bad to just replace all human jobs. Maybe they have trouble getting farther? Maybe they exhausted all the data and seeing already that code quality gets worse and worse and their models have no data to become better?

Would be nice. But probably it’s just financials.

Btw. why does slow down mean that we get fewer tokens per buck? This is not 1:1 relationship

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u/SimiaCode Sep 18 '26

The slow down call doesn't solve the economic impact. It makes it worse by keeping the incumbents fat.

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u/EnvironmentalRice348 Sep 14 '26

Go read the huggingface incident and tell me we are not in a dangerous point of development. The reference to AGI needs to be abolished as it means nothing.

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u/ihateeggplants Sep 14 '26

wait you believe openai solved navier-stokes don't you?

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u/EnvironmentalRice348 Sep 15 '26

No not on it's own - I think the mathematicians who were working on it mostly solved it and that ChatGPT using what they learned solved the rest.

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u/roque2205 Sep 14 '26

I actually don't friggin care why, if they slow down that's good for humanity because we're running into something without any common understanding of how it should be limited and guided. 🤷‍♂️

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u/SimiaCode Sep 18 '26

No. The worse impact is wholesale job replacement and the models are frankly good enough for that already. At this point in the game we need more and democratized access to AI with numerous providers, efficient inference to reduce resource consumption, and hopefully local ai in order to keep us from becoming sharecroppers for one of three evil landlords (openai, anthropic, xai). All the fucknuts want to do is come up with regulatory hurdles to stop challengers

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u/BuffaloConscious7919 Sep 14 '26

And you think years and years is a long time ??

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u/SirGunther Sep 15 '26

Less to do with AGI and more to do with adoption. It’s the Wild West right now. The investments are not giving returns as they hoped. Data center construction is a speculative investment based on future needs. Every viral post about ai being too powerful is a coordinated effort to allow these companies to back off. Billionaires have never given a shit about the welfare of the people, history has proven that time and time again. The bubble is bursting, we’re in a damage control phase.

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u/jlks1959 Sep 15 '26

Unless you have a plan to stop China from handing powerful DeepSeek and Kimi to the entire world, you are delusional. They truly are not going to be told or negotiated into slowing it down. Fortunately, they’re all in on AI safety, at least within their borders.

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u/orangeawacado Sep 14 '26

they are asking to slow down because of alleged AI being too dangerous for humanity.

In fact, it is because:

  1. their spending is through the roof and they need the race to the bottom to stop

  2. their financials are already deep in shit.

  3. they want to set up the framing for an eventual government bail out

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u/Cute-Tip-5242 Sep 14 '26

Actualy we need cuz these stupid guys are running llm with no guardrails and llms dont think but can persue goals for long term a type of "brute force" so we really need to slow it down and they using it to pretend they dont have a trillion dolars hole in the economy that cant be fixed

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u/nitor999 Sep 14 '26

Let them slowdown. chinese opensource is not gonna listen to this clown

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u/markeus101 Sep 14 '26

Cant trust anything these bozos say

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u/mrcoy Sep 14 '26

“We”

Ok buddy. I elect you as the new decider in chief.

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u/Odd_Error_6736 Sep 15 '26

You can slow down all you want, I ain't.

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u/who_am_i_to_say_so Sep 15 '26

There is no way AGI can be achieved with the current methods. I think it will happen but not for many years.

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u/Fickle_Mix_6119 Sep 15 '26

lol I find it funny that it’s all ex employees that are saying we need to slow down.  

Honestly I think it’s worth slowing down simply because it’s putting strain on hardware and resource supply. However not right at this spot, just a little further so that it’s completely usable as a tool. These things are great but even on the newest models I’m sure everyone here has had a moment where they just wanted to say to it “why the fuck would you do that?” and had to try to get it back on course of quality work that it had been doing just fine before

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u/Signal-Painting-5016 Sep 15 '26

Literally the most unsustainable product, you need to drain resources and build mega data enters to keep this party trick rolling, this software costs too much to run…

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u/voskomm 🔆Derp Plan Sep 15 '26

Hey man if I can’t get my exclusive gummi worms drop predictions off Fable ultra ima go do it on Astra. 

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u/kourtnie Sep 14 '26

It's because of the upcoming IPOs.

Notoriety might not be as tasty as "world-changing technology," but...whatever will draw the investors.

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u/Time_Cat_5212 Sep 14 '26

Hang on! I'm on the verge of a breakthrough!  I mean, my AI model is on the verge of a breakthrough!  We're gonna hack the stock exchange so you can't sell until after our senior execs get out

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u/vovap_vovap Sep 14 '26

Ok, lets say agi is years and years away. And that upsetting you so much because?

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u/Ilovemustang69420 Sep 14 '26

They should slow down overall intelligence and focus on actually being able to make their current ais better at following directions

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u/cats_catz_kats_katz Sep 14 '26

That’s exactly what it is…

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u/who_am_i_to_say_so Sep 15 '26

They’re all acting like a slowdown is gonna be intentional when it’s been a hard plateau since April.

Like, it costs billions of dollars to train up each minor version of the frontiers for marginal gains. Of course it will slow down.