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I think this is a bit of a non issue. The UI is just that, a UI. Take it or leave it. If it makes your life easier, great. If not, nothing changes about how you use DuckDB.

There is always going to be some overlap between open source contributions and commercial interests but unless a real problem emerges like core features getting locked behind paywalls there is no real cause for concern. If that happens then sure let’s talk about it and raise the issue in a public forum. But for now it is just a nice convenience feature that some people (like me) will find useful.

Owning things is breaking things (and fixing it).

salesforce is a sales and marketing company first, tech company second. it's in their interest to create a ton of buzz and hype on whatever the current thing is and how they are that thing. Then they go on to sell a basic CRUD app that has to be customized by consultants.

I agree that it's not particularly surprising that if you try to trick an LLM with irrelevant text will make it perform worse.

I don't see this as an material limitation of LLMs but rather something that can be addressed at the application level to strip out irrelevant information.

Why is it a good candidate to disrupt? 1 year in, the “disruptor” would run into the exact same problems if they reach any meaningful scale or adoption.

Asking happy team members to review your company is no different than apps asking frequent users to review on the App Store.

Anecdotal but my wife actually likes that she’s fed such relevant ads on instagram and ends up researching and buying many of the products.

I had a friend who actually took the “unlimited PTO” thing at face value when he was fresh out of college and joined a cool tech company. He was literally traveling every 2-3 weeks and bragging about it. He was let go for performance reasons within 6 months lol.

It could also be corruption caused by log-based database replication

Coinbase basically played by the rules, wanted to work with the SEC, takes public audits and a 1:1 ratio between liabilities and reserves in US dollars (not their own funny money tokens). And yet they were surpassed in # of users by growth hacking crypto gamesmen like SBF who wanted to drum up the largest possible liquidity pool to use however they pleased with no oversight or regulation.

It’s a free cloud service. If you rely on someone else to host your compute/storage at no cost, prepare for getting little or very delayed support. Ask all the YouTube creators or Instagram users that had their accounts randomly shut off and had to do a lot of work to get it back. This isn’t specific to Oracle at all. Or try AWS and get a surprise $10k bill that they won’t refund.