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Are we supposed to be against machine learning and other subsets of AI now? I don’t get all the rage

The challenge with Attie for the builder community isn't the use of AI. It's the question of whether Bluesky begins absorbing/cannibalizing existing ecosystems within the Atmosphere.

I have no idea what’s going to happen to the application developer ecosystem because of AI coding but I would say the call to action should be for all of us to start utilizing this tech in our work

I’m going to be starting a virtual meetup for agentic personal computing so we can all row in the same direction I don’t care if it’s Attie, I care if it’s the atmosphere

As I said elsewhere I am basically radicalized about this. We fight now for personal computing and personal agency or we lose another decade to closed clouds We push now for an open internet and open models. Nobody is going to hand it to us because they’re nice

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 👇

So you replace the private could with private AI models, and price out half the world who can't afford tokens to keep up. Doesn't sound like a win to me.

Running local models on a phone costs zero tokens though. A 500M param model on a £200 Android gives you something real without paying anyone per request.

It costs less than three dollars per million tokens to use Kimi K2.5, I'm a broke bitch from a third world country and even I can afford that much.

We have given multiple grants to the community, many of which are larger than 5k, and will continue to do so

Where can I learn more about your grants program?

Can confirm

I don't know about anyone else, but I received a $39k grant from Bluesky to support my work on FedCM. The atproto.com blog is full of similar grants.

That's very cool! How did you apply for the grant? Usually grant programs have a main page with a call for proposals and open applications (or at least an indicator of how to apply). I haven't been able to find anything like that outside of these small, discontinued grant programs.

So @pfrazee.com might be able to correct me here but I've gotten the impression Attie is mostly small models and the token spend is basically on the natural language UI, but actually producing the feeds is just database queries