[hinkley]

I might sign up just to stay on top of a market change that I don’t have an employer paying me to learn.

But the two concerns I have are, what happens when someone uses it to make the projects I work on again but with one design change, and it this pulling up the ladder behind us? Will someone still be able to start a project five years from now and do what you’ve done? Or come into existing projects like I have?

[davidw]

> I might sign up just to stay on top of a market change that I don’t have an employer paying me to learn.

This is the thing I hate most about AI. It is a huge shift in power towards big companies that have the capital to throw at it. And towards those few mega corporations that control the tech.

It's a big shift away from hobbyists, tinkerers and people exploring ideas on their own time.

[DANmode]

What’s the leading plan to combat that?

[davidw]

I don't know if there is one. There are models people can run on fairly expensive hardware at home, but will those be 'good enough' compared to the heavier duty resources that a big, well-funded corporation can deploy?

Like... while the open source models are improving, does that converge with the fancy models with tons of money behind them?

My understanding of the economics of it - so far - is that "more computing resources leads to better results" and capital wins that game.

[harrall]

Computers took like 3 decades before they weren’t just for the rich either.

In the late 70s, personal computers were still like $4-8k (in today’s money). It wasn’t until the 90s when regular people started getting computers.

So there is one… just time.

[r-w]

I'm pretty sure letting people control their own products and lives is a mistake the tech industry does not plan on making again.

[herbcso]

Writing code yourself?

[DANmode]

Maybe on a hobby, side project or something.

[jonchurch_]

I dont want to misrepresent, I am not the original author of any of these projects. I am not JDD of lodash (who is still involved and part of the TC) nor TJ Holowaychuk of express.

I dont know what the future will look like, but IMO open source is the intersection of code and community (aka the squishy bits) and for that reason I dont think AI will make it obselete, not now nor in the future.