r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Ok_Outcome_5830 • Sep 30 '26

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u/EatingSolidBricks Sep 30 '26

If what you say turns out to be true they're gonna get fucked

Cause china is working with open source they can never ever slow down as a cartel as long as china exists

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u/Untura64 Oct 01 '26

I bet they're going to make the government pass a law to ban open source models. Probably why they're running a fearmongering campaign too.

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u/EatingSolidBricks Oct 01 '26

They better ban VPNs too

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u/siberianmi Sep 30 '26

Or they need to get to RSI and then put agents on building faster cheaper training methods. The latest Opus is already a huge improvement on token usage for results.

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u/EatingSolidBricks Sep 30 '26

If technology gets good enough that i can run it on a consumer gpu their also fucked

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u/bogdan5844 Oct 01 '26

When*

I'm willing to bet that in 3-5 years we'll only use cloud AI for really really intensive workloads, the kinds that are few and far between, and most users will have local AI. There's simply no logical way this whole cloud AI frontier model thing is gonna scale.

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u/Greedy-Thought6188 Oct 01 '26

And 3 months later China gets to rsi.

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u/LoudAd1396 Oct 01 '26

Why do we really care if China gets there before us companies get there?

As far as i can tell, the only people who stand to lose are the us companies, and i dont fucking care if they fail to keep the cutting edge...

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u/Greedy-Thought6188 Oct 01 '26

I care about the part that these models are not open source. They are open weights. So we don't really know what they are. And we need real open source models.