I saw a similar design theme on Dan Brown's personal site recently and was wondering if it was one of those trends to feed off nostalgia or just a coincidence
https://danb.me/
While watching I was comparing the entire build to 3d printing. More specifically the process knowledge gained doing this in CAD and then 3D print vs handy making parts from PVC.
> This might suggest that decentralization itself is not actually of immediate practical or pressing importance to the majority of people downstream, that the only amount of decentralization people want is the minimum amount required for something to exist
Seems to me like building a centralized system on top of a decentralized one, similar to my earlier example of building a bank on top of something designed to circumvent the bank
General rule seems to be greed v laziness -> centralization
He had demo videos on how to build similar applications. From what I understand the first cohort was made up of people from all manner of professions, notably consulting, finance, academia, manufacturing etc.
I knew it was only a matter of time before we see clones offering this as a service. To put it mildly, some even went as far as copying his code verbatim and using it to launch such services without acknowledging his effort.
One major downside of releasing content and open source code is the handful of users who copy and paste for commercial use without giving credit.
All of a sudden there's a wave of "chat with pdf" youtube videos using my exact content, diagrams and images.
No, he didn’t “invent” Chat with PDF use case given there were already Chat with PDF SaaS apps around even in January, and Langchain etc had PDF loaders even back in Jan. Plus most of this code base seem to come straight out of OpenAI cookbook.
But yes Twitter is a wild Wild West right now of people ripping ideas off any trending repos
I subscribe ťo the same service and I find it pretty handy. There's no way to stop the incessant junk mail so it helps me filter what needs prompt pickup and the junk that can stay a couple days before I check the mailbox.
It is up the leadership to weigh the upside against the odds, short term reprieve or the consequences of going against the grain.
Pick your poison.