[Lori]

One of the current trends in modern software is for developers to slap an API call to OpenAI or Anthropic for features within their app. Reasonable people can quibble with whether those features are actually bringing value to users, but what I want to discuss is the fundamental concept of taking on a dependency to a cloud hosted AI model for applications.

This laziness is creating a generation of software that is fragile, invades your privacy, and fundamentally broken. We are building applications that stop working the moment the server crashes or a credit card expires.

[Jesse]

Hacker news story: https://unix.foo/posts/local-ai-needs-to-be-norm/

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