He doesn’t get it… Have the big corpo-shilling libertarians rotted his brain?
Like, imagine if using “AI” consisted of whatever big corpo SaaS you subscribe to sending your prompt off to someone to work on then send the result back to you. Isn’t that an idiotic dependency to have? And why the fuck even go through the middleman? Oh they have the “best workers?” Fuck that. Nvidia makes the best cards, but you don’t see me buying from them.
Do people like Linus not realise how silly it is to offload your work to some middleman service that just steals work from people who do not consent to sharing their labour? Who are desperately throwing insane, GDP-level boatloads of cash at it this unknown technology in the hopes that they’ll somehow get people hooked on their particular chatbot?
The intentions of these companies are not good. Their entire valuation is not based on being a “force multiplier” or whatever bullshit, but on being able to threaten or fire workers if they don’t slot themselves into the newest enunciation of hype-based capital.
Anything you do to willingly boost or massage these corporate services is enabling actually vile companies to continue puffing air into their stupid pointless bubble until it bursts and the next generation has to eat tuna helper sans tuna just to be able to afford to live.
You are correct, but also there are many of these big corpo SaaS’s so it’s not like if one goes away they would be stuck. Locally run AI models are also increasingly capable and I firmly believe that in 5 years open source local models will be the primary source of AI coding assistance either way.
You could say the same about any of the IDE’s, commercial or not. Yes an IDE is a dependency that could away, but also there is plenty of alternatives.
Do people like Linus not realise how silly it is to offload your work to some middleman service that just steals work from people who do not consent to sharing their labour?
I don’t see how it’s “silly”. It’s unethical, nothing silly about it. I think that someone like Linus, who freely shares code he writes with all and thinks everyone should do so, has little care for the woes of proprietary codebases being slurpled up by the coding models. After all he dedicated his life to fighting commercial codebases.
Anything you do to willingly boost or massage these corporate services is enabling actually vile companies to continue puffing air into their stupid pointless bubble until it bursts and the next generation has to eat tuna helper sans tuna just to be able to afford to live.
He doesn’t get it… Have the big corpo-shilling libertarians rotted his brain?
Like, imagine if using “AI” consisted of whatever big corpo SaaS you subscribe to sending your prompt off to someone to work on then send the result back to you. Isn’t that an idiotic dependency to have? And why the fuck even go through the middleman? Oh they have the “best workers?” Fuck that. Nvidia makes the best cards, but you don’t see me buying from them.
Do people like Linus not realise how silly it is to offload your work to some middleman service that just steals work from people who do not consent to sharing their labour? Who are desperately throwing insane, GDP-level boatloads of cash at it this unknown technology in the hopes that they’ll somehow get people hooked on their particular chatbot?
The intentions of these companies are not good. Their entire valuation is not based on being a “force multiplier” or whatever bullshit, but on being able to threaten or fire workers if they don’t slot themselves into the newest enunciation of hype-based capital.
Anything you do to willingly boost or massage these corporate services is enabling actually vile companies to continue puffing air into their stupid pointless bubble until it bursts and the next generation has to eat tuna helper sans tuna just to be able to afford to live.
You are correct, but also there are many of these big corpo SaaS’s so it’s not like if one goes away they would be stuck. Locally run AI models are also increasingly capable and I firmly believe that in 5 years open source local models will be the primary source of AI coding assistance either way.
You could say the same about any of the IDE’s, commercial or not. Yes an IDE is a dependency that could away, but also there is plenty of alternatives.
I don’t see how it’s “silly”. It’s unethical, nothing silly about it. I think that someone like Linus, who freely shares code he writes with all and thinks everyone should do so, has little care for the woes of proprietary codebases being slurpled up by the coding models. After all he dedicated his life to fighting commercial codebases.
Agree.