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> I am one of those people that reinvents the wheels because external ones don't fit my use cases

That’s OK, but I’ve yet to see someone articulating what exactly doesn’t work in the old product. It’s always “Let’s rewrite or reinvent 90% of it, then add a minuscule variation”. The variation may be interesting, but the reinvent is what’s make it untouchable as no one (including the author) has time to ensure things are right.

A patch or a plugin is ok, but not a whole new project with dubious claims.

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> what exactly doesn’t work in the old product

Assumptions. I've rebuilt a number of inference engines to run on windows and unify the dependency venv to last version to save space, unrolling model blocks so they fit in my 16gb card etc. A lot of thing thay I was locked out are possible now as i am no longer held back by invariants decided by someone else, and because I do not have to spend time to get things done. I've changed games to have a less grindy loop, added features, or making learning them easier. Ive fixed drivers, patched versions, brought dlss5 to game weren't supposed to have it

It's not ground breaking, but its liberating.

Why do you care, it's not like anybody's shoving it down your computer.

> Why do you care, it's not like anybody's shoving it down your computer

They are trying to get in every opensource projects, increasing the burden of maintainers. And once a ban is announced, they’re here protesting.

I agree. I think if everyone doing that is doing it on their computer like you're then it wouldn't be a problem.

When other people start doing that to other teams at work, other people in open source, other people in professional settings, etc it becomes a problem for various reasons. The idea that I'm gonna gift you with a 75k lines of python to "just run it" and ask your agent to hack on it might be fine (who cares as you put it). Now scale that to 47 of such projects (a month)

I think the point argued is that the hype tells us AI is worth a shit ton of money (see anthropic/openai/etc valuations) but that a lot of the benefit is in economically marginal use i.e. make some dev's life a little bit comfier.

"Someone is wrong on the stock market." Isn't there an xkcd about that?

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it's wasting limited earth resources

Eh, I could be quite specific and detailed about the "things that don't work" that are motivating me. Because most of my prompts require actively thinking about at least one of them.

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