[giancarlostoro]

I really love Cloudflare. They're always up to something interesting and different. I hope we see more companies rise up similar to Cloudflare. I almost want to say Cloudflare is everything we hoped Google would be, but Google became another corporate cog machine that innovates and then scraps things up in one swoop. I don't recall the last I heard of Cloudflare spinning something up just to wind it back down? I don't think its impossible for them to make a bad choice, but I think they really think their projects through typically.

My biggest problem with AI will be once it starts getting legislated, it will just be limited in how it can function / be built, we are going to lock in existing LLMs like ChatGPT in the lead and stop anyone from competing since they wont be able to train on the same data.

My other biggest problem is "AI" or really LLMs which is what everyones hyped about, is lack of offline first capabilities.

[nindalf]

> last I heard of Cloudflare spinning something up just to wind it back down

Cloudflare bet big on NFTs (https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-stream-now-supports-n...), Web3 (https://blog.cloudflare.com/get-started-web3/), Proof of stake (https://blog.cloudflare.com/next-gen-web3-network/). In fact they "bet on blockchain" way back in 2017 (https://blog.cloudflare.com/betting-on-blockchain/) but it's telling that they haven't published anything in the last couple of years (since Nov 2022). Since then the only crypto related content on blog.cloudflare.com is real cryptography - like data encryption.

I'm not criticising. I'm just saying they're part of an industry that thought web3 was the Next Big Thing between 2017-2022 and then pivoted when ChatGPT released in Nov 2022. Now AI is the Next Big Thing.

I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the blockchain stuff got sunset over the next few years. Can't run those in perpetuity, especially if there aren't any takers.

[giancarlostoro]

Im neutral on crypto, I see it like AI, its just waiting on some breakthrough that pulls everyone. My suspicion is someone needs to make it stupid easy to get into crypto.

[CaptainFever]

Crypto is actually pretty useful and common in some marginalised communities where payment processors usually refuse to service (e.g. some sex stuff).

[clvx]

Someone somewhere outside of your country's legal entities can still do all the things your country doesn't like and there's little to stop them. Governments might limit legal or commercial usage but it doesn't mean it won't exist.

[giancarlostoro]

Its much harder to pull off when you're hitting an international market, are you really going to ignore an entire country? Maybe if it was a small country with few citizens, but if the EU or US passes a law, you're going to miss out on an entire market.