merelydev

Open source should not be a threat just like Linux isn't really a threat to Mac and Windows. It all depends on who will get the network effects first (if there even is network effects in LLMs). People pay for windows because of its strong network effects eg Microsoft Office and countless software that run on windows. Even though Linux is free most businesses today don't use it on the desktop.

Opensource also means do it yourself and most businesses don't have time or expertise to do that, but this very issue creates a market for 3rd party providers that use open models to compete against Anthropic. So hardware and compute availability becomes somewhat of a moat.

The business feels like like web hosting before cloud computing. Web hosting in itself does not really have a moat, but than again AWS appeared with their abstractions created lock-in and network effects and disrupted the hosting industry.

Tomato tomato. The point is both are centralized, unlike textbook capitalism and the free-market economy.

> what does a world look like if the cost of having something done falls to a few cents of electricity and its burden?

There will be an oversupply, demand will be there too, but no one can afford to buy since most jobs have been replaced by AI. So the price of goods and services should go down, or some form of UBI will have to be implemented which is just socialism for the masses. Its either that or total anarchy (also socialism).

Isn't Communism just extreme oligarchy.

I don't understand all you wrote, but I guess you are saying AI leads to communism, so what happens to the investors money in a communist economy?

Exactly my point, if you trust the server's js code to do encryption than might as well trust server side encryption.

How is the js delivered to the client-side and how do you ensure that the server has not tampered it?

A bad day for opensource, but I guess this is how we get stronger patch by patch.

Or don't want to crash stock price.

That is the classic problem of decentralized networks, if it is big enough there will be spam at which point you will need moderators to sieve it out. But I think AI can also be helpful here instead of having centralized moderators we can have AI (hopefully self-hosted/decentralize) moderate your network graph for bots/spam.

I can see Deepseek becoming the standard and other providers will build on Deepseek. Like the Linux kernel and its distros.