> If you actually require intelligence to get a hard job done, you should just use a frontier model.

Or, you know, your own intelligence.

What I do not understand as an engineer is how our community has gone from believing in open source for controlling destiny, security, etc., from believing in heterogeneity and portability, to just saying, look, if you're not using the product of one of two loss-making AI unicorns to do all of your work, you're just being a contrarian.

I guess if that is your definition of contrarian — that everyone else is doing it so why aren't we? — then I am.

But in my experience it's not so different to "why aren't you on social media?"