The US being able to just cut off people from the financial system is seen as very problematic by anyone outside the US.

I agree. Upstreaming it in the first place was probably a mistake. In the end, it just caused a lot of stress for both sides.

All of these are extremely common. Capitalism is in a sad state :(

Most of these companies did not get into the field because they had something valuable to provide, or great ideas, but rather because it was the hyped thing, and because it was easy. The result was foreseeable from the start.

This process was so sad to witness, especially because there was no good reason for any of this unraveling at all. It was 100% just a result of Kent’s inability to constructively work with others. There was a lot of interest and goodwill, and Linus was so patient for so long. There were no technical reasons for any of this. Kent is a great software engineer producing excellent output. Everybody tried to resolve the purely social issues… except for Kent.

Recently, Kent has gone completely off the rails, seemingly developing a serious AI psychosis. I hope he gets better, and I wish him all the best.

Customers (had to) accept prices under the assumption that the money went to the government, who are supposed to use it for the public good. You can easily argue that they would not have accepted the same price, knowing that it would benefit a for-profit corporation.

I mean… it is still up 63% over the last 5 years. It’s not a bad time at all.

That’s all I need to hear. Just hype-chasing. Not interested.

I don’t think this is a bad move, they might even want to divest from their other side projects too. They are mostly distractions and money sinks.

Nope. Copyright is a thing, licenses are a thing. Both are completely ignored by LLM companies, which was already proven in court, and for which they already had to pay billions in fines.

Just because something is publicly accessible, that does not mean everybody is entitled to abuse it for everything they see fit.

I don’t get it. If you don’t take time to write an article, why should I take time to read it? If you don’t have anything to communicate, why write a blog post?

It’s the same sentiment as “Individuals don’t matter, look at how tiny my contribution is.”. Society is made up of individuals, so everybody has to do their part.

> 9/10 whatever tooling you are using now will be perfectly fine.

It is not though. Software is getting slower faster than hardware is getting quicker. We have computers that are easily 3–4+ orders of magnitudes faster than what we had 40 years ago, yet everything has somehow gotten slower.

After glazing OpenAI and Sam personally for 45 minutes straight. But as soon as Sam was questioned in the slightest, he exploded.