the far more interesting "AI civil war" is between the monolithic model advocates (who largely are bought into that architecture because of capital pressure) and the modular intelligence advocates (who are bought into that architecture because it is actually sustainable and does not need 9 gazillion datacenters)

Ariadne Conill 🐰
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trust me, after a quarter or two, your employer will realize this is not worth it
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i for one, do not have an employer that tracks me on token use, or imposes any AI requirement of any kind, but, you know, i hear about a lot of people in that situation
if your employer tracks you on token use, the answer is not to burn those tokens on mediocre FOSS maintenance
the answer is to burn those tokens on your shitty employer's codebase
they asked for slop, they should get slop