Developer refuses frontier model access, fearing labs will reverse-engineer his ideas
ryunuck · x · 2026-10-09
Developer ryunuck explains why he won't buy a 20x license to test Claude 5.5: handing unpublished personal software to a US frontier AI lab would let them measure its capabilities, predict what's possible, and advise policymakers. He argues Alex Karp's "they can steal your alpha" line understates it—beta, theta and gamma insights get reverse-engineered too. His core claim: in the frontier-model era your ideas flow at Claude's pace, and devs who don't curate what they feed models are "building to impress Claude" rather than for themselves.
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