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> We're going to own it all.

We don't even own the AI that is building all of this.

You totally can. You just gotta shell out at least $2.5k for a good GPU, but then you own it. These big open-weight models aren't nearly as good as Opus 5.5 but I find them to be about as good as the big models were a year ago. It's only a matter of time until we catch up.

One day, RAM prices will settle again, and the USA-China race will probably keep giving us fresh models to self-host (weights only, but still.)

That's not too far from owning it.

>That's not too far from owning it.

It's still not owning it. It's still proprietary with extra steps.

Writing the code yourself and distributing it freely to a community capable of understanding, contributing to or editing it is owning it.

Will any human ever be able to understand, contribute to or edit these apps? Or will they only ever be edited and updated by AI? Removing the human element is removing ownership.

Hey, you sound a lot like me. We are old-fashioned to the point of being doomed dinosaurs.

We are at least in good company. The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs was an unimaginably huge lump of soulless dirt, too.

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