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Because that company does not mint (supposedly) thinking machines - the lack of humans at a price point that is feasible is often the reason - it would be more profitable to sell the tooling because its impossible to maintain all the layers of specialization within one company.
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It's the same for software companies too, they do much more than just producing code, it wouldn't be feasible for Anthropic to do all that other stuff too.
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Eh but if Milwaukee was to then invent a power tool that it claimed could soon do the contractors' whole job... OPs question would correspondingly exist there too.
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A student of history might note that power tools do indeed allow a worker to replace multiple workers not equipped with power tools.
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