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loebertoday at 1:41 AM2 repliesview on HN

If you don't get it, then you should read the blog post and come back if you have questions.


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matteotomtoday at 1:49 AM

I did. Your argument seems to be that LLMs allow users who want specific features to direct a donation specifically towards the (token) costs of developing that feature. But I don't see how that's any different from just offering to pay someone to implement the feature you want. In fact, this does happen, eg in the case of companies hiring Linux devs; but it hasn't worked as a general purpose OSS-funding mechanism.

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jscdtoday at 1:48 AM

Wow, impressively insufferable