[thewebguyd]

What secret sauce? We already have open source tooling for tool use, web browsing, and code execution/computer use. Open weight models will win in the end.

AIaaS might keep an edge with multi-modal agentic workflows, but for 80% of general use cases, no "secret sauce" needed, the open weight models are already there, and tooling is constantly getting better.

The bottleneck is the cost of local hardware right now.

[Shitty-kitty]

The "secret sauce" is vendor lock-in. A textbook case is the vmware broadcom situation. Vmware was cheap so corporations found little reason to use open source. Broadcom made vmware expensive but now those corporations are finding out that it is a lot of work (aka expensive) to switch infrastructure.

[woctordho]

The purpose of open source is exactly to fight against vendor lock-in. There is always a way to convert VMs from VMware to open source formats.