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by lilatree 412 days ago
What about projects where secrecy matters? How do hedge funds use these? Are you comfortable feeding the secret sauce to Cursor?
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Code is nowhere near as valuable as most people imagine....
I'd day that hedge funds and quant trading firms are an exception to this rule. If you get access to their model training code, order execution code, and especially their trading strategies, then that is literally valuable since you'd be able to replicate their success.

This is unlike most other companies, say Spotify, where if you get access to their source, there's still not much that you can do with it.

It is in some projects, OP gave a good example: hedge funds.
Especially if it can be generated with a prompt.
No, code becomes less valuable with the passage of time.
self hosting via litellm or olama isn't as hard as you think. If you have company kind of money it shouldn't be a problem.