Tobacco companies should've just announced that "This new tobacco we made is super good, but too dangerous to release, so we are smoking it ourselves and giving it to only the select C-level smokers"
Now China has invested heavily in their homegrown industry and all of their cigs are currently 10 years ahead of the rest of the world. Chunghwa thins are the new frontier, with their subtle plum aroma.
No offense but I couldn't give less of a damn what some guy on the internet thinks. If it makes me feel good in artsy-ways, then it is art, and I don't care how it was made.
You can theoretically do most things AWS does most of the time, yet people pay premium for it and keep paying for it, even though alternatives are cheaper, simpler and more performant.
I'd bet you that after 20 years OpenAI and Anthropic would still be around and kicking.
You might have a subpar product (for the price) but the reputation and history is what makes people open their wallets.
> You can theoretically do most things AWS does most of the time, yet people pay premium for it and keep paying for it, even though alternatives are cheaper, simpler and more performant
It's going to be debated forever whether wiring your own open source tech has a lower development cost than the equivalent AWS bill. For me, that's too broad a statement, as I have seen it go both ways. What is true: There is only some knowledge overlap between maintaining an AWS stack and having your own Prometheus logged, ceph backed set of boxes.
That is not the case with LLMs. At least, not right now. They roughly work the same and are easy to pick up. They are about as straightforward of an interface as it gets, and using them in "advanced" ways could be summarized on an index card. They are relatively fungible.
I don't see a world where OpenAI runs on brand recognition alone. It needs to be more convenient to run than local LLMs. They've done that by buying so much of the worlds hardware that it becomes more expensive to run these things locally.
> I'd bet you that after 20 years OpenAI and Anthropic would still be around and kicking.
Depends. The bigger the bubble, the bigger the pop.
Only a few unicorns from the dot-com bust came out the other side (Amazon, Google, ... anyone else?), and that was a piddling affair compared to this one.
It’s also a weird argument.
You can only spend your money once, and the affected employees also chose to work for a bell-end like Altman (or Zuck, or Musk)
People can spend money how they wish. SamA is a prick, so I don’t buy from his company. I don’t buy from Microsoft or Oracle either. Giving a company your money is explicitly supporting them and everything they do. Are you going to force me to buy products from people I don’t agree with?
I think it's about whether you trust someone or not. I don't really find Altman trustable. No one should have sole control over AI, but we need to have some trust in the people that are operating it.
I enough 'small' senior developers, project managers, product owners, internal IT people take a small stand against OpenAI products, that can still sum up to a notable impact
And I think that's amazing. I'd like to keep using the subsidized coding tools, especially Codex, since I've given up on Claude. Hopefully the PMF allows the subsidy to continue. Would hate to have to move to the next coding harness again.
This is a legitimate, understandable way to discuss a mixture of abstract and specific things. This is a novel we are referring to, here. The intended audience is very, very broad.
For the most part, doing things right in the given language matters more than change of language. A lot of refactors in Rust (in the coding agent space) I see jump straight to Rust without considering what inefficiencies can be addressed before changing the language.
Having said that, I considered a Go/Rust rewrite of Dirac (https://github.com/dirac-run/dirac) for some modules to support cases when someone wants to run like 30 agents, but it quickly became obvious that, a) while the node event loop is a bottleneck, it is not the sole bottleneck and b) if you have a VSCode extension, you can't totally get rid of TypeScript, so it just becomes the case of bi-lingual project and the maintenance burden that comes with it
Rust is just another language. Sure it's cooler than some langs, to some ppl. Sure.
The author made the choice. Open sourced it (thanks!). So now we all enjoy more options. Saying author did so because "cool" does not sit well with me. It's feels like you get a no-strings attached gift of significant value and then going saying the giver gave it to be seen as cool.
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