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The common fear is that the giant AI labs that sell proprietary models are somehow acting like Trojan horses. I feel the real question is how can we effectively prevent that, yet having best in class inference? Are open source models the endgame then?

I was reading a bit about their story, it feels like they managed to succeed by turning overly funded (and by then devalued) software products and restructuring them for long term profitability as they are not bounded to the classic 10 year time horizon of private funds. Wondering if we will see more plays like this as alternatives to traditional private equity and as fallback option for VC backed companies that bursted.

I feel it has rather created an opportunity for a junior programmer to deliver 5x faster than before and it has lowered the barriers to be a decent junior developer. Perhaps in today's job market for junior devs what changed are the metrics against which they are judged for. It's not just knowing theory of coding, it's about speed at which you ship and most importantly quality. Ultimately, how good is such a developer to push code with agents. What do you think?

Genuinely experiencing it daily and tackling it by having a few audit agents running in parallel to keep the big picture and feed context as needed. However, this is terribly expensive.

My question tho is, how confident are we about an agentic future? I mean coding was the one thing agents "are best at". How would you run a complex system/organization on an agent where they will need to face with a massive (and growing) context through a limited context window?

How is this sustainable in the long run tho? Major enterprises are already making the headlines as they cut licenses and reduce token consumptions. The conversation is moving a lot toward return on token... is automating this activity with an agent giving me a higher return rather than having a human run it? Plus the advent of local AI and open source models are creating new opportunities to reduce token costs