darkmatriarch

yes, any amount turns me away. I only trust the slop I generate because I know it's been reviewed.

Obvious note to other readers, don't put you API key into strange input boxes.

That's exactly why I switched to exclusively using local models 6 months ago and haven't looked back. It's a very different beast but it works.

Every time I see an LLM company release tools to compete with existing tool suites it feels like they're just proving we can all now build these quickly ourselves. At least a software engineer could.

Build vs buy keeps getting pushed further to build, which is great for people in general but it feels like Anthropic is digging its own grave proving the only value it can provide is the model itself, and from what it looks like that's still scaling linearly and unprofitably.

I think there are many of us working on projects with LLMs that'll take months more to reach full production. These will feel very out of left field and we'll have another paradigm shift. I think the real momentum will hit when more of us leave the dull products we're working on, start our own companies, and build the products we're actually excited about.

I encourage everyone else to at least build a privacy first version of a product you actually like.

I don't think the centralized internet will survive this change. We can build something much better.

You're right, but I find as a solo engineer it's still important to check the frontends I create on mobile