It has always baffled me how quickly, and how voraciously, people started to rely on privately owned AI systems.

AI is not something discovered by scientists and plucked out of the ether. It's engineered and controlled, for profit, by corporations which have demographics and KPIs. These companies don't owe you anything, and they make no promises.

If you're running a business that deeply relies on AI, you might as well add Sam Altman to your board of directors--because he has just as much control over your company as you do. If they have a bad quarter and need to increase rates by 1000%, your choices are to pay up or shut down.

This Mythos situation is just the beginning. Not only do they have everyone hooked, but they've actively stalled the personal skill growth of millions of people who fell into vibe-coding rather than genuinely learning. And now they have that choice: Pay up, or shut down.

Whatever is in Mythos will be open source in 6mos-1yr tops. You might not have the GPUs but you won't be locked out of the capability.

We're still not at the point where one person with a coding agent can max out their salary in effectively using credits, so the capability is still well within reach of the vast base of the industry.

Meaning that for now, most people who want to pay for the product (which IMO is pretty reasonably priced for what it does) will be able to get the product.

The economics will make sure of that. The market is ripe for someone basically copying the likes of Mythos and pricing it competitively.

That assumes “more model” is the part that differentiates successful ideas from unsuccessful ones.

Governments and corporations controlled enormous mainframes far beyond the compute available to the hacker kid we were waxing nostalgic about, didn’t they? Not to mention the PhDs, the mountains of capital, and so on?

My money’s on team human.

You can do things without AI. That hasn’t really changed.

We saw yesterday that expert orchestration around small, publicly available models can produce results on the level of the unreleased model.

I take a contra view and instead see this as fuel on the fire for tinkering to squeeze advanced functionality out of more available things.

It has always been like this, the amateur improvising tooling and equipment to outdo companies with comparably infinite resources.

You can’t use your own brain?

It’s the same as it always says.

You could always take the time to do something or pay someone else to do it.

You pay others to focus on things you can’t.

Unless myths fully does that (which I say in full confidence that it doesn’t) it’s just making it cheaper to provide focus.

It seems to follow that when the world is full of slop artists real artists don't get taken seriously/can't get a job.

The Elons/FANGS are generally doing fine though.