Comment by esafak

5 months ago

Models are check-pointed. You can save one you like and use it forever.

You can save an open source + open weights model, which is frozen in time. That’s still very useful for some things but lacks knowledge of current data.

So we’ll end up with a choice of low-performing stale models or high-performing enshittified models which know about more current information.

  • Open source models get updated all the time. You'd only be a few months behind.

    • Direct enshittification is intentional and wouldn’t affect open models.

      Indirect pollution via AI slop in the input and the same content manipulation mechanisms as SEO hacking is still a threat for open models.

Really? I thought you could only do that with open source models. Can you teach me how to checkpoint the current version of Claude Code so I can keep it as-is forever?