Re:Cal.com is going closed source
by jodrellblank on Thursday April 16, 2026 @07:07AM
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Next, you double click the Excel icon on the desktop, and instead of having Excel installed or a spec of Excel, you have a cloud service with thirty years of Usenet, Quora, StackOverflow, Reddit, PHPBB comments and blog tutorials about how people use Excel, and you wait a few moments while approximately-Excel is rederived from these experiences.
You’ll accept the delay because by then it happens faster than Microsoft can make a splashscreen and window open from a local nvme drive. And because you can customise Excel’s feature set by simply posting a Reddit comment where you hallucinate using a feature that Excel doesn’t have and waiting a couple of days.
[although it can be difficult to find the real Reddit to post on as your web browser will tend to synthesise the experience of visiting any website using a cloud AI model of every website without connecting to the real one at all. This was widely loved as a security measure and since most websites are AI written content on AI written codebases, makes less difference than you’d first think]
Re:Cal.com is going closed source
by mgdev on Thursday April 16, 2026 @08:35PM
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It's a mistake to confuse what you're seeing out of today's models with what you'll see out of future ones. We're barely out of the gate on this stuff. We'll borrow what works, and use it to bootstrap something better.
You’ll accept the delay because by then it happens faster than Microsoft can make a splashscreen and window open from a local nvme drive. And because you can customise Excel’s feature set by simply posting a Reddit comment where you hallucinate using a feature that Excel doesn’t have and waiting a couple of days.
[although it can be difficult to find the real Reddit to post on as your web browser will tend to synthesise the experience of visiting any website using a cloud AI model of every website without connecting to the real one at all. This was widely loved as a security measure and since most websites are AI written content on AI written codebases, makes less difference than you’d first think]