theres always a lot of openTHING clones of THING after THING is announced. they all usually (not always[1]!) disappoint/dont get traction. i think the causes are
1. running things in production/self hosting is more annoying than just paying like 20-200/month
2. openTHING makers often overhype their superficial repros ("I cloned Perplexity in a weekend! haha! these VCs are clowns!") and trivializing the last mile, most particularly in this case...
3. long horizon planning trained with RL in a tight loop that is not available in the open (yes, even with deepseek). the thing that makes OAI work as a product+research company is that products are never launched without first establishing a "prompted baseline" and then finetuning the model from there (we covered this process in https://latent.space/p/karina recently) - which becomes an evals/dataset suite that eventually gets merged in once performance impacts stabilize
4. that said, smolagents and HF are awesome and I like that they are always this on the ball. how does this make money for HF?
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[1]: i think opendevin/allhands is a pretty decent competitor to devin now
1. running things in production/self hosting is more annoying than just paying like 20-200/month
2. openTHING makers often overhype their superficial repros ("I cloned Perplexity in a weekend! haha! these VCs are clowns!") and trivializing the last mile, most particularly in this case...
3. long horizon planning trained with RL in a tight loop that is not available in the open (yes, even with deepseek). the thing that makes OAI work as a product+research company is that products are never launched without first establishing a "prompted baseline" and then finetuning the model from there (we covered this process in https://latent.space/p/karina recently) - which becomes an evals/dataset suite that eventually gets merged in once performance impacts stabilize
4. that said, smolagents and HF are awesome and I like that they are always this on the ball. how does this make money for HF?
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[1]: i think opendevin/allhands is a pretty decent competitor to devin now