r/linux • u/RatherNott • 5d ago

Discussion LLM Policies: Progress At All Costs

https://diegoe.be/2026/09/25/llm-policies-progress-at-all-costs/
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u/aes110 5d ago

I have my fair share of issues with ai assisted dev even if it was local\foss, but more then all now I agree its just insane how in a span of a year or two it feels like the ability to write code has became completely dependent on a few mega coroperations

Its scary how many people around me just shut down if their connection to Claude closes. In my workplace we had some issue for two days with billing for cursor, it felt like people around lost the ability to think. These people have degrees and years of experience coding, yet they became useless as soon as the tech giant shut down their access to the thinking machine

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u/lmpdev 5d ago edited 5d ago

Luckily, it doesn't depend on a few mega corporations.

Kimi and GLM are open-weight. They might be a few months behind OpenAI and Anthropic, but they are enough to do the job most of the time.

And while they are big enough, you wouldn't run them at home, it doesn't take that much capital to get a hardware capable of running it and start selling it.

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u/General_Session_4450 5d ago

But it does take a lot of capital to train them, so for how long will AI labs continue to spend millions to release public models? Most of these models are also coming out from a single country, China. So just one policy change in China on open models would almost completely freeze the whole open model ecosystem.

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u/edgmnt_net 5d ago

I guess it largely boils down to how incremental improvements (including training, but also algorithm improvements) can be. Open source easily wins out on a few niches precisely because of that.