[jason-phillips]

You appear to me to be stuck in the academic world of arguing concepts that are detached from how the simplest of things work in the real world.

> [W]hat will we do once Microsoft start bundling [GPT] into subscription packages?

Pray tell, how will Microsoft do that, exactly? And assuming there is some licensing or subscription model for the use of GPT, what is wrong, exactly, with that?

[453qtgreq]

I don't understand what you mean by your first sentence. Copilot-enhanced VS Code is becoming very popular. Copilot uses GPT3, which is exclusively licensed by Microsoft from OpenAI. I'm very much talking about the real world, and the frighening ease and speed which which MS is taking over the way we write software.

>Pray tell, how will Microsoft do that, exactly?

How will Microsoft make people pay for tools that they currently distribute freely? You don't have to look very far to find examples.