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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

I can see the reasons behind this push, whether I agree with them or not. But then, why not go all-in? Why not make it a fundamental requirement that Attie *only* use open models. From my understanding, the current system is to use Claude. Why not push the limits from day 1?

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 am curious how you define "open" models, and I'm really not trying to be pedantic here. Open weight? Open dataset? Are you thinking about the implications of building on what courts may determine is stolen work?

Indeed I think a lot of people have been saying "the Supreme Court decided AIgen output is in the public domain!" but that's not true, they declined to hear the case. One reason (of several) I don't include AIgen in my projects; international legal situation unclear AFAICT.

The case is about art that predates consumer LLMs by almost a decade and has no human intervention to create it, & the human creator of the algorithm wanted to assign copyright to the software itself. It is unlikely applicable to modern generative AI at all, and definitely not code generated by AI.