Low-resource open source developers pretty much screwed now

[ShelLuser]

All this AI craze has a very unfortunate side effect.

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With LLMs that changes. You either need a monthly subscription to an AI service (and the $20/month option doesn't reach very far), or you need hardware to run an LLM locally. You'd spend about $3500, which gets you either:

You almost make it sound as if an LLM is crucial to hobby based software development. I beg to differ.

In fact, I'd argue that this isn't a problem at all but rather a huge advantage as it will stimulate potential developers to actually learn and develop their own development skills vs. simply relying on tools which more than often get things wrong anyway.

 

[JohnK]

> video snips, future development 'changes' / 'options' / FUD et al.

1. I watched Frank Klausz use a powered router to help cleanup up some dovetails. My point being: Frank has more than likely hand cut and chiseled tens of thousands of dovetails in his lifetime and whatever tool he choose to use is just another "time saver" in his quest to "lower production cost"; his knowledge and experience is what makes the tool (a powered router, in this instance) only a tool (-e.g., he made the decision that the powered router was just a saw that can go sideways as well).

2. Stickley furniture was an answer to the mass-produced market (and more interesting Harvey Ellis' versions were even more desirable) and created a whole market.

3. How may "regular" loops had Duff written before/after he used switch?

...knowing is different. Ai is not a panacea (stop perpetuating FUD regurgitation's). I use a lower case 'i' because if I choose to use an LLM I am the "intelligence", not it.

Again, just because the power saw was invented, wood will still cut the same without one.

So, what specifically are you trying to discuss/talk about? Are you honestly saying that you think the playing field is leveled now?


> a huge advantage as it will stimulate potential developers to actually learn and develop

I'm not sure I'd buy into the idea that the "age of LLMs" will stimulate new developers seeking out specifically only hard-won knowledge more so, but I do believe the current artists will shine that much brighter.