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imho the prompt is part of a "design", not a build artifact (unless your build system is weird).

a deterministic build system for prompts is a called a compiler.

The agentic era definition of open source is garbage.

Software that is not open source, is proprietary software. Open weight models, are not open source. Binary blobs in a repo with an Apache license, is not open source.

Am I a retro-grouch? Probably. I guess it doesn't matter anymore what I think about it.

no
google used to be cool
Re:Stop Quoting Steve Ballmer on Thursday July 02, 2026 @07:22AM (#48759677)
"Embrace, extend, extinguish". ya boi remembers exactly how Microsoft got their reputation.
copyright is only as good as the enforcement. enforcement is exhausting and expensive.
hey now, LinkedIn was terrible before Microsoft.
Re:Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE on Saturday May 02, 2026 @01:06PM (#47988205)
No, it doesn't.
Re:Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE on Thursday April 30, 2026 @07:29PM (#47969655)
I guess not
Re:Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE on Thursday April 30, 2026 @04:26PM (#47967768)
if I can't reproduce the artifact, is it really open source?
Re:Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed] on Thursday April 30, 2026 @08:59AM (#47961736)
more folks should be skeptical
Re:Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE on Thursday April 30, 2026 @08:53AM (#47961668)
I do not have high opinions of any ai model.
Re:Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE on Thursday April 30, 2026 @08:39AM (#47961533)
the (dead) internet is full of opinions exactly like this
Re:Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE on Thursday April 30, 2026 @08:35AM (#47961480)
"open source"

show me.

the emperor's new clothes are so beautiful, can't you see?
Re:Welcome to the Wasteland: A Thousand Gas Towns on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @12:24PM (#47250777)
This show has really lost the plot.
last time I was at a casino I checked to see what company built the machines, imagine my surprise that it was (by my observation) a single vendor.
Re:Open models by OpenAI on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @01:27PM (#44801194)
Correct. I agree with them, most of the open weight models are not open source.
Re:Ask HN: What's Your Car? on Monday June 30, 2025 @11:36AM (#44424591)
Software Engineer, daily driving a 1988 Volvo 760.
No surprise some of the largest producers are trying to find ways to increase profits by blending beans that are cheaper and don't taste as good.

Support your local coffee roaster.

Re:Bad.solutions on Thursday March 05, 2015 @05:10PM (#9154195)
Out of curiosity, what other domains would you have it round robin to?
Re:I broke Git :( on Thursday March 05, 2015 @03:38PM (#9153647)
I do think that the correct instructions should be there, but it should also include how to fix it in the event that you didn't.