Dev Slams OpenAI/Anthropic: Subscription Data Letting Labs Steal and Ship Your Ideas
_jaydeepkarale · x · 2026-10-14
Developer jaydeepkarale, quoting a note that Anthropic built their own git because they have unlimited tokens, levels a sharp accusation: users pay subscriptions to OpenAI/Anthropic to build products, yet the labs can see those ideas and ship competing versions overnight. He calls it "the biggest heist in human history, ongoing without much intervention" — an opinion piece fueling ongoing debate about conflicts of interest between model vendors and the developer ecosystem.
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