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Are we supposed to be against machine learning and other subsets of AI now? I don’t get all the rage

The challenge with Attie for the builder community isn't the use of AI. It's the question of whether Bluesky begins absorbing/cannibalizing existing ecosystems within the Atmosphere.

I have no idea what’s going to happen to the application developer ecosystem because of AI coding but I would say the call to action should be for all of us to start utilizing this tech in our work

I’m going to be starting a virtual meetup for agentic personal computing so we can all row in the same direction I don’t care if it’s Attie, I care if it’s the atmosphere

As I said elsewhere I am basically radicalized about this. We fight now for personal computing and personal agency or we lose another decade to closed clouds We push now for an open internet and open models. Nobody is going to hand it to us because they’re nice

I can see the reasons behind this push, whether I agree with them or not. But then, why not go all-in? Why not make it a fundamental requirement that Attie *only* use open models. From my understanding, the current system is to use Claude. Why not push the limits from day 1?

Really good question So- we did test it. And the open models are, you know, in striking distance but not as good yet The way we see it then, the interface is very exchangeable, so we build in anticipation of those models catching up to claude. But very open to counterpoints here

Closed models will not stop improving either. This is Linux vs macOS… or accepting the discomfort of rail travel over airplanes. Being radical in theory doesn’t count.

Sure… but.. What you just said is a pragmatic stance, i would say. “Radical” usually implies a strong commitment, I think..?

I don’t like fighting about words and if you say “this needs to be as good as possible”, I wouldn’t even blame you for that either. What you said upthread tho would be more in line with something like “we don’t think depending on this closed thing is in line with our values, even if it’s better”

FWIW, on the subject of open vs closed model capabilities, iff the capability lag keeps shrinking, we are soon looking at a <6month window. I hope that this will help more pragmatic people to be a little more patient lyptusresearch.org/research/off...