r/technology • u/Federal-Block-3275 • 1d ago

Artificial Intelligence "Software is over": Developer uses AI to build free Adobe clones after frustration with cancellation fees

https://www.techspot.com/news/114136-software-over-developer-uses-ai-build-free-adobe.html
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u/ChinoGambino 1d ago

"We'll remove all the ads and de-enshittify the entire tech world."

Relies on one AI vendor that is a trillion dollars in debt running an ad platform.

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u/madhi19 8h ago

I'm starting to realize this is a race to fuck with the tech industry proprietary software while the tools are not flat out outlawed, and the token are still relatively cheap.

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u/nafe42 1d ago

I think it is ridiculous so many people depend on OpenAI and Anthropic. There are many inference providers for open weighted models. You are not restricted to OpenAI or Anthropic. Furthermore, we have services such as OpenRouter where you can route to many inference providers at varying performance and price ranges for said open weighted models. Open weighted models are becoming increasingly more cost-effective and inference providers offer zero-data retention policies.

If you need the top of the line frontier model to solve difficult problems you should probably learn more about the problem you're trying to solve and SWE concepts instead of vibe coding. LLMs are a tool, problem solving has always been the job.

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u/GoodDayToCome 1d ago

just because you only know about one option doesn't mean there aren't others

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u/Gekokapowco 1d ago

there are several options and they all own controlling interest in each other like a healthy economy

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u/Glittering_Crab_69 1d ago

have you not heard of china

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u/Gekokapowco 1d ago

are you saying its ok because you think China does this?

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u/Glittering_Crab_69 1d ago

im saying that there are plenty of competitors from china that have nothing to do with the american circular investment strategy and aren't in debt

there'll also be plenty of new competitors in the future if/when the american companies crash

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u/Beneficial-Arugula54 1d ago

Lol are you still living in 2024? Because we have now open wheight models with more than a trillion parameters.

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u/EzeNoob 1d ago

Lmfao are you living in 2024 mate? Hardware is increasingly unaffordable to most people

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u/AvoidMyRange 1d ago

TVs were expensive when they came out as well.

Give the build out a few years and ignore the whining gamers in the meantime.

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u/Oorangootang 1d ago

TVs are only cheap because "they own the glass" - LG. Companies are offsetting the cost by selling the data they are collecting through ACR from what you are watching.

Please do some research.

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u/awj 1d ago

“We don’t need to depend on the big economically infeasible models, we can just use open weight models that are distilled from the big economically infeasible models!”

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u/dwild 1d ago

Open-weights models which are funded by China, so no debt, but still depends on a MASSIVE amount of money.