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GPT3 released four years ago, in terms of iterations beyond that, we are at ~v5, and progress has only been incremental relative to that milestone. The transformer models can only be scaled so far before not even VC money can sustain training. I believe we will get there eventually, but transformer based LLMs have been hitting a roof for a long time, and we need to think differently.
Replacing managers is a walk in the park compared to replacing programmers. The focus is on programming because that is the benchmark, if we can outsource that to AI, then we can replace everyone.
Last time I checked, Apples holdings are all based in Ireland. So from a legal standpoint, it's a Irish company, held accountable by EU law. It can't "simply leave".
On the contrary, this tantrum by no means works to lessen the growing idea that control of the platform should be put into the hands of a independent third party.
While not European in origin, the platform holds and manages tremendous value for us, to the extent where small changes can cause mayor economic disruption, and Apple has not been managing it fairly.
And for a state actor, which exists to serve the common good, it is not acceptable that a single company holds and abuses this kind of power.
Norway as an independent actor is too small to carry any weight in this matter. Our best bet is to hedge our interest as an extended member of the European Union, and even there we have a limited say.
I feel you, I am the sole developer of https://ember.ly
Certainly feels great to have your livelyhood kicked to the curb by some rich american megacorporation throwing a tantrum.
The worst part is that probably 40 percent of the development time has been trying to wrangle my way around weird rendering quirks in safari, never again. My next site will have a banner suggesting safari users open the site in firefox..
Thank you for the kind words!
My partner and I are both sick and tired of feeling like our purpose in life is to make rich people richer, and we reached the age where we realized there is no glory in corporate life, only a endless hamster wheel.
So we quit our jobs, sold our house, and bought a sailboat that we are working on making fully independent with solar and a watermaker. We still need money though. In the short term we have a cash buffer, in the long term we are hoping to do two things, optimize our cost of living and increase the revenue of the side business. If we are unable to balance the needle within three years, we will start taking on freelance assignments.
Awesome, sent you an email, cheers!
Me and my girlfriend is building something similar, but targeting a different niche, a personal non-collaborative knowledge tree. Would love to connect and share ideas if you are up for it! https://ember.ly
Alright, thanks! We will hold off on the open-source idea for now.
Thanks for the advice, that is a clever way to think about user-acquisition, breaking it down into smaller parts. We will try this once the next beta is ready!
That makes a lot of sense, thanks!
Do you have any opinion if we should open-source the project?
Usually boils down to that yeah.
But with users comes problems that we currently don't have the money or time to deal with. After the workday is complete, we have on average 2-3 hours to work on the platform. If we did this under the cape of a "big-brother", we would have more time and resources to deal with issues that we currently can't, such as marketing, legal and economic issues. And would be able to dedicate the entire day to get the system ready to go public.
If we could dedicate the entire day to development of the system, we could release in a matter of weeks. At the current rate we are lucky if we can get the system online by early-spring, but considering that this is not a traditional social b2c startup, that might be fine.
A few months ago we had alpha testers for ui-testing, but right now the system is not released.