I’m just thinking now that the Mac is next. I thought that as much as these companies preach about LLMs doing their coding, the cost of development would go down, no? So why does it need to reduce everything to a single code base to make it easier for developers?

These comparisons assume equal capability, which I find troubling. Like, a person who doesn't understand singing nor are able to learn it can not perform adequately in a musical. It doesn't matter if they are cheaper.

The Chinese models are locally hostable. This does not, and cannot count entities self hosting the models privately. The research posted by American AI companies (other than huggingface and a few startups) is pretty much a nothing burger. This is what I keep trying to tell everyone. It’s not US vs China nor AI vs no AI, the real battle is corporate APIs vs augmented, locally hosted, open weights and open research models. I hope the future is specialized models on smartphones, occasionally augmented by remote APIs. And that has a lot of gravity because, once set up, the calls are basically free. And AMD/Nvidia are still relevant in that future because they’ll likely be the one training models, at least.

Never said it would protect your shit, just that it likely would be better in the long run for everyone involved. Its not an easy problem to solve but I dont think we need to treat people poorly because of it. Just because I don't trust those around me and use cameras doesn't mean I treat people poorly. I am very respectful to the people who live and work around me, but that doesn't mean I trust them not to take something that isn't theirs. Lack of trust does not equal disrespect, it just means I've seen the true side of a lot of people and don't wish to let them take advantage of the kind of naivety that you display here. I understand if its just not possible to assume the financial risk though It's not that I'm unable to assume the risk, I'm unwilling to be taken advantage of.

They are more under engineered because of cost cutting and over designed by management because of ignorance and hubris. Developer: “oh yeah this feature will take me a week to implement another week to make it performant and another week to pass QA” Manager: “Oh hell no just slap on this library into the project that I saw getting recommended on LonkedOn” Here is a lightning fast website that gets the proper amount of engineering time because the goals of management and that of the development team align perfectly. https://www.mcmaster.com/

And now googling will just result in "I asked AI and it said X", as the first thing you get is the AI summary shit. A friend of mine does this constantly, we are in a discord call and somebody asks a question, he will google it and repeat the AI slop back as a fact. Half the time it's wrong.