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I wonder whether the future of software is like this project, where computer capabilities come in the form of skills that you can (purchase?/rent? to) download and use.

I'm reminded of Factorio.

At first, it's really fun to make your own bases. Eventually, it seems you either lose interest, or you get impatient and copy in others' blueprints. A blueprint is just a plain-ish text representation of a part of a factory, and late game (or creative mode), the robots just build it. All you do is copy and paste it, not much creativity required.


Where in Computer Science or business process engineering is the creativity going to go?

What should we call it? Software as a Service?

Shareware suggests itself.

> I have a strong feeling this article would survive regeneration well.

That does not make the article incorrect.


AI says many true things. That doesn’t mean I want to read someone else’s AI generated output. I want something in the article to show that the author spent more time writing than I will spend reading, and by a wide margin, or else I know they feel that my time is not valuable.

As long as it shifts the zero-sum game in the favor of the defender, it is improving things.

In a technical sense, I assume the defender means cybersecurity companies, open source developers, etc?

In a physical sense, Anthropic is giving access to who we believe are the "defenders", aka the United States DoD and Israel.


US govt used to have a program to sponsor mobile phones for homeless. Is that still around or did DOGE kill it?

(edit) It seems to still exist: https://www.fcc.gov/general/lifeline-program-low-income-cons...


But Signal is secure(TM)!

> One could imagine a different legal standards for recreational, research, and commercial uses.

Meta used allegedly stolen copyrighted materials to train a model they shared for free with the whole world. Is this a recreational use?


No it is not recreational use. And no, they are not freely sharing it. It is use to build a monopoly, make hones competition impossible and plan charge as much possible on it.

It is the same playbook everytime. We dont have to be naive and pretend meta is doing something for other peoples benefit.


>And no, they are not freely sharing it

Are you unable to access this page?

https://www.llama.com/llama-downloads/

Or this one?

https://lmstudio.ai/models/meta/llama-3.3-70b

>It is use to build a monopoly

How?

>We dont have to be naive and pretend meta is doing something for other peoples benefit.

Meta benefits from the current war of open model competition, but we also benefit from it. In particular, participating in all this makes it hard for them to pull the ladder up when the market changes. They will have to justify why whatever new hotness is better than these existing models already on our hard drives.


"I found this on the web. Check it out."

Should the GPL3 software you download and run also be yours?

Pardon?

Why would the AI companies advertise that most of their users do not use their subscription in full??

> Most developers in China or India have a monthly salary of 1 K USD. If you expect them to pay way more then 200USD thats like asking US Devs to pay 5K a month. Yeha not gonna happen.

That's exactly what is going to happen. India/China prices will be $100-200/month, US prices will be $5000/month. Keep in mind that most of these costs will be covered by the employer. It'll put downward pressure on dev pay, of course.


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