I think the lack of syntax highlighting was one reason for that. It makes you think more about the code you write and how it should compose, while a fully fledged IDE encourages you to just throw more code at the problem.

I think the ACME way should be used for love of code and ideally when you want to create libraries that stand the test of time. When you just want to get things done fast bring the full IDE and now some LLM vibes and it’s done.

I understand that “normal” people are let’s say “less concerned” about posting everything on something like Facebook but I expect more from OPSec people.

I am cheering for destruction of monopolies and anti-consumer corporations.

It’s quite something to see how both OpenAI and Anthropic didn’t even IPO and already play the regulatory capture card trying to decide for every democratic and sovereign country and every human being what kind of access they should have to public knowledge and IP work they stole. Of course they also charge a handsome amount for that stolen and regurgitated IP.

Not to mention their abhorrent behaviour:” we give you Fable on subscription, no we don’t , now we do again. We don’t store your data, now we store it for 30 days or forever…(in the meantime people get angry) nevermind we promise we don’t store…”. I would very much enjoy to see Anthropic in particular getting bankrupted and Dario homeless(I know the second part won’t happen). They suffer from too much entitlement.

Something else to keep in mind: Google used to be somewhere on 3rd place. Now it is behind Kimi K3(an open model). So we are on the right track.

I think China's strategy is to sell you products with AI embedded (i.e. robots, washing machines etc) not chat subscriptions like OpenAI and Anthropic. China sees AI as infrastructure (i.e. internet bandwidth speed) not necessary a product.

Being the best matters but what you fail to see is that the open models are just sooo close and on some tasks (i.e cyber) they are better. And if you like analogies you should compare VHS vs Betamax. VHS won due the porn stuff...The history is full with example where OPEN and convenience wins over the closed stuff.

That aside I wouldn't be surprised if china releases a better open model than OpenAI and Anthropic. I would very much like to see that after (if) OpenAI and Anthropic IPO...

You already can do more with open models than with proprietary models because you can’t tweak the proprietary models to your liking. Just as OpenAI and Anthropic went from 0 to a trillion they can go back just as fast.