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"LLM assistance is a huge dependence on something owned by few."

Open models are capable and owned by everyone who wants to.

Fair point. How many people know OpenCode, Pi? How many pct of ppl code? How many pct of companies buy their own hardware with GPUs? It is similar situation e.g. as Salesforce vs Odoo. Imho 99 pct of companies choose SF, not Odoo.

People don't know about those because the options owned by few are cheap (subsidized by VC) and easily available.

My worry is that if we need to pivot to those open options, we'd be so far behind in infrastructure, and no one has the hardware to run the open models at their home/office.

And the overwhelming majority of LLM users will never use them or even understand what they are or how to set them up. Those people will remain dependent, and we shouldn’t ignore that.

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