I think the trend is that top models are meant for companies. Small devs did our job of hyping and training and we can now either pay way more, or pay more and use not sota models, or give our data to access train chinese models in hopes they keep 6 months behind in the cold war and need still need some of our input, or invest around 5-10K for powerful local personal AI [0].
On the other hand I think that AI can really raise the bar of "average tech", and we devs are wired to think that better tech == more value... but this might not be the case in the many many many cases where existing average tech and velocity is already good enough and the real moat is the handshake, trust, marketing, etc etc
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I think the trend is that top models are meant for companies. Small devs did our job of hyping and training and we can now either pay way more, or pay more and use not sota models, or give our data to access train chinese models in hopes they keep 6 months behind in the cold war and need still need some of our input, or invest around 5-10K for powerful local personal AI [0].
On the other hand I think that AI can really raise the bar of "average tech", and we devs are wired to think that better tech == more value... but this might not be the case in the many many many cases where existing average tech and velocity is already good enough and the real moat is the handshake, trust, marketing, etc etc
[0] https://github.com/antirez/ds4