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I think something like Attie is/was inevitable. The only question is who was going to do it and how soon. Vibe coding is a real power that's here to stay and can't be wished away. But with great power comes great responsibility ...

As a software developer, using AI has forever changed the way I work. So far it seems positive.

It's a pick between Claude and Bring Your Own, as I understand it. Which means if you prop up an API endpoint on your own PC, you can just plug in a local model, and otherwise services like OpenRouter can also be plugged in.

claude sonnet/opus 4.6, or byok

Hey Paul. I strongly recommend that you read this essay about “open models.” They can be as exploitative as proprietary models. The huge ethical question concerns capture & use of data for training. “Open” tells us nothing about that. Open =/= ethical. Open =/= progressive.

It's hard to read this when the introduction of Attie is basically just feed generation on steroids. This is the opposite of non-algorithmic. I'm not sure how it will be used in the future, but the optics are bad if that makes sense.

@pfrazee.com it's hard to believe you when BSky raised $100m and that money is going to AI companies instead of the indie ATProto dev community. Mini thread 👇

Reiterating another replier's recommendation that you read this piece. I think you're fetishizing "open" as somehow magically avoiding all the ethical/theft issues that so many people are so justifiably enraged by. (Aka this high-minded language sounds to many like "a different excuse for theft")

Yes, agreed. Be good to talk to someone about this.

What the American government is doing right now is all anyone needs to see to be radicalized about decentralization.

It's Claude with the option to bring your own model. Which kind of feels like the most viable thing right now? Like. It has to deliver a certain level of quality out of the box and unfortunately there isn't an open-weight provider that can guarantee that right now...

2nd on open models. As someone that repeatedly got screwed over by Microsoft in the beginning of the "Indie games on Xbox" days, tying your existence to a business outside of your control is a recipe for disaster. Anthropic especially has shown they greatly disrespect developers and open source.

Really good question So- we did test it. And the open models are, you know, in striking distance but not as good yet The way we see it then, the interface is very exchangeable, so we build in anticipation of those models catching up to claude. But very open to counterpoints here

I think personal computing without personal computers is more ideal; the form of PC’s are alienating and don’t allow us to live embodied lives.

Would love to join. Can bring the day job experience to this.

subscribe. turns out I don't really care about social media, it's the computational sovereignty that I care about

Might be interested in this, I've been working on agentic workflows lately and retaining any sort of security guarantees around them is definitely swimming upstream.

Check out userandagents.com - @burrito.space & @lukeinth.bsky.social have organized a community day next to @localfirstconf.com for the last couple of years. @komorama.bsky.social drops by the chat too.

why are you talking about the impact of ai on tech at large while the post you are replying to talks about the positioning of bluesky towards the atproto developer community?