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GPL licenses also restrict what you can do with it...

Beyond reciprocity which is the entire point of that license, what restrictions does it come with? I guess you could say that it has a restriction of adding new restrictions, but surely that's not what you're talking about?

Copyleft licenses have restrictions. Now, those restrictions are definitely in promotion of the normative ethics that the FOSS community holds, but they are nonetheless restrictions.

This is a great recipe for going out of business.


If the competitive risk is real, then are choosing between supplier risk (AI model access) and competitive risk.

When there isn't a zero-risk option, the question becomes which risk is smaller.


> If the competitive risk is real

Yes.

If.

Man I hope this tech FOMO eventually stops.

Companies generally fail because either their product doesn't meet a market need, or the market doesn't exist in the first place (possible because of bad timing), and not because they simply outran their competitors.

These aren't things fixed by using a frontier model to vibe code faster in lieu of one 5 months behind.


You can compete by being smart and using less-than-sota models and build a more solid business around them


I use whatever model is SOTA. I switch between them in order to avoid lock in.


>I use whatever model is SOTA. I switch between them in order to avoid lock in.

What's your competitive edge here? Shaving off an hour of a feature delivery? Not having to see the code that is produced?


Making better software than my competitors and keeping my business afloat is my goal. I use whatever better tool gives me the edge.

I focus on doing better work for the most part. But there is also stuff I do now, because the SOTA models can handle it, that I would otherwise just wouldn't do.


Not sure about OP, I usually make Opus 4.8 on Extra thinking level implement features for me on a specific project, while I'm busy with other stuff.

For a change, I let DeepSeek V4 Pro implement it on Max thinking level. Nothing too out there - some DB migrations, some Django back end changes and Vue SPA front end changes.

Implementation time in total including tests was a few hours, so nothing too egregious. However, one of the migrations would break with pre-existing data, one of the column references in the entity was wrong, the API endpoint wasn't made consistently with the others in adjacent code (e.g. permission checks) and the front end had a Pinia state related issue and submitting one of the forms didn't work.

Tooling was run: ruff, ty, Oxfmt, Oxlint, also Docker build was green across the board, but the overall feature just didn't work. In both cases, sub-agents with clear context would review the code for serious/critical issues, at least three in parallel and do review loops until they spot nothing. The harnesses both has LSP integration.

Opus spent another hour fixing it, needed a few iterations, because I couldn't be bothered there.

> What's your competitive edge here? Shaving off an hour of a feature delivery? Not having to see the code that is produced?

The difference largely was not needing to waste time in fixing all sorts of subtle bugs that sub-optimal models will produce, worse yet if it was some sort of a serious project and those wouldn't have been spotted but instead that slop would have gotten shipped.

That said, Opus isn't ideal either and messed up a whole bunch when I was training some neural nets and try to process a bunch of satellite data and configure Garage to store them so that tiles can be served from a slow HDD and stuff like that. Obviously, it also needs a lot of babysitting in regards to UI looks, but it's better at the rest of development.

I think that DeepSeek V4 Pro and GLM 5.2 are cool though, it's just that you want as many checks and tests as you can throw at any given problem, or use languages that make shipping completely broken code increasingly likely.


Any competitive business will accept this risk if it gives them any type of edge no matter the duration of that edge. This is no different that using an exotic raw material.


Every big business in the world biases towards risk reduction and cost reduction over getting an edge.


Different businesses have different biases.


Eh, this isn’t really how businesses operate. How many businesses refuse to give devs large-spec machines? That’s very clear positive ROI.

I think it’s excessively charitable to assume businesses are uber-competent ROI-chasers. The expense people are eventually going to win on AI too, this blip of unrestricted AI budgets will be gone soon.


And thus, capitalism continues to roll on. Businesses are suppose to go out of business, its a feature.


they’re not supposed to, they’re just able to


Nearly spit out my coffee, thanks for the chuckle.


It’s ok to be amused, absent exaggeration. Spit takes happen in sitcoms.


They do happen in real life.

They are overused in sitcoms because it’s easy for actors to mimic on demand unlike several other reactions.


I live in cities, and I usually walk around 15-20k steps every day for the last decade in cities. I listen to music or podcasts in my earbuds, and often I read stuff on chat on my phone as I walk. I have never run into anything, and never had any issue bumping into people or cyclists. It's perfectly possible for some people to navigate just fine in their environment while dealing with multiple stimuli, and in fact that's exactly why I love walking so much more than sitting. Having earbuds or using my phone at the same time for me is certainly nothing like being intoxicated while walking. It's important to not project one's experience as how it must also be for everyone else.


You think you do. You're just not aware of how many people are dodging you to prevent collisions :)


No I also dodge, because I glance around the entire time I do things. I have ADHD. I feel more comfortable having continual tasks and stimuli, so looking both way, glancing at who's around, pressing the button for crossing the street, these are part of the background pleasure.

You don't have to share my experience, but the difference is that you deny mine can exist, whereas I am perfectly fine understanding e.g. the autistic person who also posted about how they wear earbuds to use ANC because noise disturbs them. You are not granting the same consideration about how other people experience things differently.


It was intended as a lighthearted comment, hence the smiley face :)


    > 15-20k steps every day
15k steps is 10 to 12km per day. How do you find the time? There is no way that I have enough time in my life to walk more than 10km per day everyday.


But so you have a baseline to compare this against?

You don't know what you doing know, after all.


I never know how earnestly to take any Roko's Basilisk mention


I always thought she liked bread a bit too much…


It is such a colossal self-report (when meant).


How is it difficult to make the connection between a thought experiment about a world-eating AI monster, Anthropic marketing their AI as a world-eating monster, and Anthropic accelerating frontier development of their world-eating monster as hard as possible possibly being a little tiny bit icky and cynical when they tell us they’re totally trying to save us from it and stuff, bro?


Unfortunately, we actually don't make the kind of general widely applicable gains in treatment that people believe we have. We're not in a much different place for major cancers than we were 30 years ago, and I don't see much value in assuming we will just suddenly improve.


Supranational regulations limit national sovereignty, news at 11.

Across the gamut of regulations the EU has, it's not really the ones that apply to Apple that draw much ire.


It's very often this. Even light core strengthening and glute work can help you stand or walk for much longer.


Stimulants


As a tourist or outsider, the cost of trains in Europe is going to be much more expensive. In the Netherlands for example, the price of a train ticket without a subscription (such as for tourists) is very high; the price of a monthly subscription for free train rides outside rush hour is €130/month, which is way less than monthly cost of car use.


I see you don't subscribe to weekend papers. Mild, minor culture articles are perfectly normal and welcome for media outlets to carry for the people who pay to subscribe for their journalism.


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