alt Hacker NewsOne thing that I am not liking about the LLM world is that it seems to be tilting several things back in favor of BigCorps.
The open source world is one where antirez, working on his own off in Sicily, could create a project like Redis and then watch it snowball as people all over got involved.
Needing a subscription to something only a large company can provide makes me unhappy.
We'll see if "can be run locally" models for more specific tasks like coding will become a thing, I guess.
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TSiege • 06/17/2025
This is some nightmare fuel vendor lock-in where the codebase isn't understood by anyone and companies have to fork over more and more otherwise their business couldn't grow, adapt, etc
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I share this concern - given the trajectory of improvements I do hope that we'll have something close to this level that can run locally within 18 months or so. And of course the closed source stuff will likely be better by then, but I genuinely believe I would choose an open source version of this right now if I had the choice.
The open source alternatives I've used aren't there yet on my 4090. Fingers crossed we'll get there.