I hope everyone recognizes they aim to make you dependent on their intelligence rather than your own.

gruez a day ago | parent | next [-]

But there's open models that are (pessimistically) 1 year behind? It's not like if openai decided to rugpull everyone, we'd be going back to writing code by hand and all the developers who forgot how to fizzbuzz would be screwed.

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benterix a day ago | parent | next [-]

> we'd be going back to writing code by hand

Well, as as SWE who writes code by hand and has no intention to outsource their intelligence to any entity, I felt slightly offended by "back".

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nightski a day ago | parent [-]

Are you a member of a team? Then you are the outsourced intelligence. Your manager is not writing everything by hand, they are outsourcing it to you. Just understand that may change (I mean I am already mentally prepared for it to be a thing of the past within years). If you are purely writing software for hobby/fun then disregard, nothing will stop you from doing that.

	▲	benterix 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I have no problem with other people outsourcing their intelligence to me, I've been doing this for years. But I prefer not to outsource my intelligence, at least not for things I care about, for various reasons.

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ghostly_s a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Open models still need compute.

	▲	0cf8612b2e1e a day ago \| parent [-]
		Open AI rents compute. It seems unlikely given the huge investments they have already spent that they can profitably match someone who is just selling GPU time.

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dgellow a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Open weight models are way closer to frontiers than that

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fny 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

An open model is not your brain.

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zulux a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There's an escape valve: I've had Claude stand-up AI-enabled features in my app, so we're much less dependent on Claude itself. The app uses cheap API calls to check code quality and run other "lessons learned" sweeps. Some of these become regular code in the end as well.

	▲	vidarh a day ago \| parent [-]
		Same. Claude "loves" writing tools to make checks deterministic so much that I actually have to pull it back sometimes and point out that some things need to keep using LLMs. But even then, I have it "farm out" a lot of things to scripts using dirt-cheap models for things I don't need a Sonnet or higher level model for as well. The proportion that runs on the SOTA models keeps dropping.

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catchnear4321 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I reject your intelligence and substitute my own?