slopinthebag

there is no position, you're imagining arguments people aren't making.

are you german?

im still so confused what your point is. it's like talking about the consequences of someone's alcoholism, and someone chiming in "well they have a right to die of the booze if they want" like...ok???

so your point is that it's fine that germany ceeded energy independence and gave power to russia, because they're a country and countries have the 'right' to make bad decisions?

we have the right to criticise countries too right?

if the germans want to shoot themselves in the foot they are allowed to do this, yes. what is the point of your comment? it's not even remotely relevant.

1970 engineers too many

just use rust for everything and then you won't even need to rewrite it when it takes off.

1m/month? whoever is running your company is out to lunch.

not really tbh. i think most analysis of power aren't very sophisticated. am open to having my mind changed tho.

tailwind!

because it's cheap to use closed models, but if they became more expensive the open models are right there.

who cares? i'm not so sure the current quality of software can get much lower and responsible use of ai could have big upside.

what do you mean they don't in practice? you don't believe people and companies are using AI to build their own tools to replace expensive dependencies?

one example i've seen is modders using AI to bring back older games that ip laws are killing. the whole stop killing games movement will be made obsolete soon when modders can simply produce working, open source versions of these games.

and you dont need to run models locally, you just need competition in the provider market. and we can see this in action - go look at how many providers serve deepseek, all at competitive prices.

i think open models decentralizes power and especially takes power away from large corporations with software monopolies based on licensing.

i suppose i differ in the opinion that the most important thing about software are the users, and to the extent that AI can be used to create better software faster for them we should use it. i don't share the same moral qualms about AI, but even if i did i think there would be a strong argument that the benefits outweigh it.

developer communities can also be valuable but i think increasingly people are finding they can be quite toxic. the chillest communities i've found have actually been ones primarily made up of non-devs vibecoding. no egos, no endless arguments, holy war battles, or bikeshedding. they just build stuff and share. it's kind of nice acutally.