Yeah, the AI corpos are putting a lot of effort into parsing big contexts right now. I suspect because they think (probably correctly) that coding is one of the few areas where they could get paid if their AIs didn’t have the memory of a goldfish.
And absolutely agreed that making sure the FOSS alternatives keep pace is going to be important. I’m less concerned about hating the entire concept than I am about making sure they don’t figure out a way to keep every marginally useful application behind a corporate ecosystem walled garden exclusively.
We’ve been relatively lucky in that the combination of PR brownie points and general crappiness of the commercial products has kept an incentive to provide a degree of access, but I have zero question that the moment one of these things actually makes money they’ll enshittify the freely available alternatives they control and clamp down as much as possible.
It’s not much use with a professional codebase as of now, and I say this as a big proponent of learning FOSS AI to stay ahead of the corpocunts
Yeah, the AI corpos are putting a lot of effort into parsing big contexts right now. I suspect because they think (probably correctly) that coding is one of the few areas where they could get paid if their AIs didn’t have the memory of a goldfish.
And absolutely agreed that making sure the FOSS alternatives keep pace is going to be important. I’m less concerned about hating the entire concept than I am about making sure they don’t figure out a way to keep every marginally useful application behind a corporate ecosystem walled garden exclusively.
We’ve been relatively lucky in that the combination of PR brownie points and general crappiness of the commercial products has kept an incentive to provide a degree of access, but I have zero question that the moment one of these things actually makes money they’ll enshittify the freely available alternatives they control and clamp down as much as possible.