VirgilShelton

If Microsoft pulled this stunt, this post would have 2500 points, but when Google does it 253.

Yes and now I use AI to build any website which locks me into their workflow and run it locally how I choose!

I used to be a software test engineer at Microsoft in the late 90's and early 2000's. What I learned is that 60% of their business was International because of their language support. Also most of their customers are business customers locked in to using their Windows Server Domain system for corporations. These corporations also run office and Sharepoint and build custom apps using office. This is why they have so many different ways to build apps on Windows. We are not the users they are targeting, they target the enterprise.

Ha! You're very welcome! Ah the good ol' days of CD install media, CD Keys and install times that took hours!

RIP to your install CD!

Yeah Windows 2000 had countless software test engineers, I was one of them and on my team there were 5000 of us. I stared in tech support in 97 and moved into QA and always filed bugs on behalf of the customer, sadly everyone must code and customers must test. It's just not working out but Microsoft really only cares about Corporate America and Windows running on all the main languages. It's great to have alternatives and I've moved to MacOS after using Windows since 1.0.

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The best thing about being nerds like we are is we can just ignore this product since it's not for us.

Great, now I learn about this when I used to have printers back in the 80's , 90's and 00's!

Yup! I'm also super cheap and use open source everything but I do have a Mac Book Pro and will never buy a PC again. So when it's worth it, the wallet is coming out and OpenAI has not only my little $20 bucks a month but will have my investment dollars once they go public.

The best part is memory. If you use it daily like I do for everything from programming tasks to SEO and digital marketing, to budget stuff for investing and bill reminders. It will really start to understand what you want and get your voice right when it writes a blog for you or you work on an idea with it.

I'm old and have been on the Internet since the Prodigy days in 90. Open Ai has the best start of any company I can remember. Even better than Google back in 98 when they were developing their algo and giving free non-monetized search results to Yahoo.

These guys have had my $20 bucks a month since Plus was live, they will indeed be more than fine.

My contrarian take on the astronomical costs need to scale LLM infrastructure is that since it does cost so much, innovation at the grid and power plant / renewables will also see massive gains and ultimately save our planet.

Self hosting and using your payment processor of choice is always the best move. Own your own data or be prepared for the jig to be up at some point. This is what every platform that scales does.

It's just a buzz word but sadly it will (And already has) effected real engineers :(