alt Hacker NewsGood. AI is a game changer. It's like having an expert sitting next to you at all times. It's understandable why all these experts who want to gatekeep don't like AI, but ultimately, AI will win out, it's just too good.
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Experts don't want to 'gatekeep'. Experts have been producing FOSS for the benefits of everyone, and liberally answering questions on mailing lists, stack overflow etc for free.
Experts have been badly bitten by poorly written and badly architected software, lost their hairs trying to figure out bugs and poor design.
They recognize the first version of a piece of software is only a miniscule percentage of the work and majority of effort goes into maintenaning it for its lifetime.
They are viscerally horrified at a thousands of LoC codebase generated at the speed of GPU inference they are to be responsible for.
it's not gatekeeping when people are submitting PRs they don't understand and make it someone else's problem.
If you’re dismissing the opposition as gatekeepers you clearly don’t understand their positions
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The issue with AI is not its obvious value, it's our dependence on it. I worry what will happen to me when I am cut off for some reason.
Local models are going to be really important and hopefully computing costs don't make it too prohibitive.