> the description as "the next evolution of sqlite" is offensive
That marketing is really the one thing that keeps me from considering this as a serious option.
To callback to an article a few days ago, it's a signal of dishonest intent [1], and why in the world would I use the alternative built by apparently dishonest people when sqlite is right there and has one of the best track records in the industry.
SQLite is public-domain software and one of the best well-maintained pieces of software around today. You absolutely have to be very careful before saying things like these, as they bring lots of implications. I wouldn't call it offensive _per se_, but I'd say it's in bad faith at least. I'd just remove that if I were the devs, because everything else there makes me find the project at least interesting.
They are giving their stuff away for free, hence they can do whatever they want.
It goes without saying, that spiritual teachings are not there to create quarrel and division.
no payoff whatsoever? I just asked Claude to do a task that would have previously taken me four days. Then I got up and got lunch, and when I was back, it was done.
I would never make the argument that there are no risks. But there's also no way you can make the argument there are no payoffs!
Now you can’t be paid to do that task and you’ve made yourself unemployed or paid lower in the future.
Meanwhile, mountains of additional energy is being comsumed to do that task, and a small handful of companies like Nvidia collect all the profit that used to go to people like you paid to do that task.
You don’t own a data center and your labor is on an express train to being worthless.
So, fine, I agree with you. There’s a big payoff. You’re just not the one getting it.
That's not a very constructive thought given you don't know what the task is or why it could have taken them days. In a field as large and complex as software, there are myriad reasons why any single person could find substantial time-saving opportunities with LLMs, and it doesn't have to point to their own inadequacies.
I think it's a lot like outsourcing. And, expected quality of outsourcing aside, more importantly, I don't see outsourcing as the next step up on the ladder of programming abstraction. It's having someone else do the programming for you (at the same abstraction level).
if you're a consultant/contractor that's bid a fixed amount for a job: you're incentivised to slop out as much as possible to hit the complete the contract as quickly as possible
and then if you do a particularly bad job then you'll be probably kept on to fix up the problems
vs. an permanent employee that is incentivised to do the job well, sign it off and move onto the next task
You're making flawed assumptions you have no basis for.
Most of my work is on projects I have a long term vested interest in.
I care far more about maximally leveraging LLMs for the projects I have a vested interest in - if my clients don't want to, that's their business.
Most of my LLM usage directly affects my personal finances in terms of the ROI my non-consulting projects generate - I have far more incentives to do the job well than a permanent employee whose work does not have an immediate effect on their income.
Nah, I'll move much of it locally when it becomes cost justified to do so.
I doubt that the exponential cost explosion day is coming. When the bubble pops, the bankruptcies of many of the players will push the costs down. US policy has provided a powerful incentive for Chinese players to do what Google has done and have a lower cost delivery model anyway.
The cost iceberg with this stuff isn’t electricity, it’s the capital.
Other than Google and Facebook, the big hype players can’t produce the growth required to support the valuations. That’s why the OpenAI people started fishing for .gov backstops.
The play is get the government to pay and switch out whatever Nvidia stuff they have now with something more efficient in a few years.
it kills the incentive to contribute, the incentive to maintain, the incentive to learn, the incentive to collaborate, and the ability to build a business based on your work
and it even kills the idea of traditional employment writing non-open source code
all so three USian companies can race to the bottom to sell your former employer a subscription based on your own previous work
any avoidable dependency on the US has become a red line
don't forget to tell fastmail that the reason you're leaving is because they host in the US!
(I also told them if they open a DC outside the reach of the US regime: I be happy to become a customer again)
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