Announcements are such a valuable pre-ipo resource. I'm surprised they haven't announced that they're developing AI tools to cure cancer.

Total madness. But what do you expect in this weird day and age?

>> The student has become the teacher because the teacher has had a stroke and is yelling at the wheelie bins.

Bloody brilliant! All of it!

Yes, I definitely noticed a problem with openrouter and deepseek v4 pro. It's much more expensive.

This video is an insane insider view of the affair. Neither the Mormons or the store brand come out of it looking at all well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxZPfj8AlmY

Nor the police. Seriously when they release footage of the complete stop and show the officer: https://youtu.be/cxZPfj8AlmY?si=s9aoNjEOh-kZzvTc&t=216

Serve and protect.. the rich and powerful.

It's so blatant and so weird. Almost surreal.

Really really really simple. They had a plan.

Hmm... If this holds up it could explain a lot of things.

The first comment here answers it perfectly.

So they really feel their futures are erased by a technology? Or by Big Tech? I'd say rage against the system (machine), not the tech. Sure captilism as we have it is rigged, money makes money, success depends on which family you're born into (this is even happening in the most socialist countries). It's far from fair. But to blame a specific technology? Meh.

I think you may need to read up a little more on the impact of AI, rather than just any 'specific technology'. They are being told that AI will remove their jobs. I too would boo loudly.

But they don't even have jobs yet, they are simply entering a fast changing world. I am a bioinformatician at the moment, when I left school I could sequence 200 basepairs by hand using gels. Now I use supercomputers to process terabytes of data. I didn't think of booing Illumina at the time.

I can't imagine they boo because the world is changing? Isn't that just exciting? I hope they were mostly taught how to think, and not just rigidly prepared for 1 single profession to be performed in a specific way? That hasn't worked for the last decades.

I can imagine them booing big tech (all your data are belong to us) and wealth differences though. They can't buy houses, they're not insured by default etc etc. There is much to boo about indeed. But AI? Meh.

I think it's the nature of the change that's really freaking them out. You left college and used a new tool to do things more efficiently. These kids are being told they won't be needed for any job at all. The AI will do the whole thing, the AI takes over their whole job. It's a subtle but important difference, I think.

I would try and go open source as fast as possible before a legal letter land on your desk. Then worry about the commercialisation. Also I have a feeling you could charge SERIOUS coin for some app for property developers based around this. But someone is almost certainly going to come at you because, you know, us Brits hate clever clogs.

Yeah, unfortunately you are not wrong about the national tradition of wanting to pull down clever-clogs...

The open source angle is something I'm increasingly considering, especially after a local government IT person made a fair point on this thread about the strain it causes. It won't fix the scraping load directly, but might frame the project as public-interest rather than attempting to make a bit of extra money. Tbh, the real value is probably in serving property developers and consultants, not emailing £19 PDFs to homeowners. Got a lot to think about.

I think you're absolutely on the right track. It's all a matter of optics. Open source gives you the higher ground for the jobsworths. Meanwhile you can put together some kind of cool package to approach property developers with.