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Really good post. Lots of stuff I knew, but lots I didn't, and having it all gathered in one place is a really useful thing.
Obviously I'm a little bit obsessed at the moment, but I would put in a plug for DeepSeek and your case analyser as something that's made me optimistic this year. This is less to do with any particular virtue on DeepSeek's side and more that its existence makes it more likely that LLMs are going to be commodity products, rather than magical productivity pixie dust which you can only access if you kiss up to the robber barons.
On your side, you messed around with some LLMs, put that together with your domain expertise, knocked out some code, and made something useful that, three years ago, Lexis would have been charging a small fortune for monthly access to.
If you put those together, extrapolate, and hope, you can imagine a tech scene that's a little bit less concentrated, and a little bit more private and secure: if not the cyberpunk internet we all thought we were going to get in 2002, at least not the current hellscape.
Oh I should have included open source (even open source with an asterisk) tools in that list, and agggghhhh now I'm sad I didn't.
DeepSeek and the ability to use LLMs or other no code solutions to write your own privacy tools/code will surely have an impact for the better.
And now you've got me thinking of a new article.
Naw, this was a fine article as is. Focus on how well ya did with this, and not on what ya think ya didn’t. :)
Really good post. Lots of stuff I knew, but lots I didn't, and having it all gathered in one place is a really useful thing.
Obviously I'm a little bit obsessed at the moment, but I would put in a plug for DeepSeek and your case analyser as something that's made me optimistic this year. This is less to do with any particular virtue on DeepSeek's side and more that its existence makes it more likely that LLMs are going to be commodity products, rather than magical productivity pixie dust which you can only access if you kiss up to the robber barons.
On your side, you messed around with some LLMs, put that together with your domain expertise, knocked out some code, and made something useful that, three years ago, Lexis would have been charging a small fortune for monthly access to.
If you put those together, extrapolate, and hope, you can imagine a tech scene that's a little bit less concentrated, and a little bit more private and secure: if not the cyberpunk internet we all thought we were going to get in 2002, at least not the current hellscape.