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Post by simonw »

dxuh wrote: post #23

> hint: (Claude AI is in its own league) Is there a good way to use the Anthropic models as a private person? It's my understanding you can only pay for them as a business.

Claude is available for free (with usage limits) if you register for an account. Then you can pay for a $20/month Claude Pro account as an individual.

You can also create a paid API account as an individual and use it via their API, which is almost certainly cheaper than the $20/month Pro account for personal use.

I use the Pro account because I really like the Claude Artifacts and Claude Projects features.

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Post by jcgrillo »

> more extensively thanks to Redis Labs later: a freaking Robin Hood of open source software, where I was well compensated by a company and no, not to do the interests of the company itself, but only to make the best interests of the Redis community.

Governments should do this and tax companies to pay for it.

Re: vector embeddings, two projects I've had recent exposure to--Memgraph and FalkorDB (previously RedisGraph)--are implementing similar functionality. I think the lego approach is really awesome, I wish this concept was more broadly adopted. All that is to say, this seems exciting!

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Post by simonw »

rkgany wrote: post #7

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If you don't like the productivity boost AI gives programmers, how do you feel about the productivity boost that open source gives programmers?

I would argue that the open source community is responsible for WAY more of a free/cheap productivity boost for programmers than generative AI, and we've been providing that productivity boost for decades.

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Post by munificent »

> However, during the “writing years” (I’m still writing, by the way), I often returned to coding, as a way to take breaks from intense writing sessions (writing is the only mental activity I found to be a great deal more taxing than coding)

This has been my experience too. With both "Game Programming Patterns" and "Crafting Interpreters", writing the code was a joy while writing the prose was hard work. Gratifying, but mentally draining in a way that programming isn't.

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Post by devjab »

world2vec wrote: post #40

Is Claude really that much better than ChatGPT? I Use ChatGPT Plus on a daily basis and have no complaints but is it worth cancelling it and get one for Claude?

We use both, in my anecdotal experience it depends on what you use them for. The engineering teams which build solar plants use them as “an extra set of eyes” for increased quality control, and they chose ChatGPT. It discovered something to do with cable sizes and efficiency which ended up saving/making a lot of money. I’m sorry I can’t be more precise than that, but I know they had a much better result rate with ChatGPT. For my team which is software development, we favour Claude. It’s obviously rather anecdotal but it has been much better at Go than ChatGPT. For other languages like Python I don’t think there is any real difference. If you feed them both the same prompt they’ll often give you an extremely similar output, and neither will consistently be better than the other.

So I think it’s mainly to work with the one which works for you. I’ve seen some of our more junior developers first use Claude and then ChatGPT to refine their output, or the reverse.

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Post by iamflimflam1 »

munificent wrote: post #64

> However, during the “writing years” (I’m still writing, by the way), I often returned to coding, as a way to take breaks from intense writing sessions (writing is the only mental activity I found to be a great deal more taxing than coding) This has been my experience too. With both "Game Programming Patterns" and "Crafting Interpreters", writing the code was a joy while writing the prose was hard work. Gratifying,…

That's really interesting - was chatting to a few friends who are very into using tools like cursor to generate code. They've been complaining of feeling extremely drained after a day of prompt writing.

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Post by BiteCode_dev »

This type of genuine openness mixed with the excitement of passion is so joyful to read, especially from a high achiever with strong technical capabilities and a history of business success.

Salvatore is definitely high on my list of role models.

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Post by simonw »

For me, the license change upset me mainly for two reasons:

1. Many people had contributed their efforts to the Redis project for free - both in terms of code but also in advocacy, writing tutorials, publishing example code etc - and when they did that it was under the understanding that project would remain under the same open source license. It honestly felt like a betrayal of trust.

2. From a purely selfish point of view, my favourite thing about open source licenses is that they let me know exactly what I'm allowed to do and build on that software without having to consult a license. Licenses like the new Redis one leave me potentially needing to get my own legal advice depending on what I'm building on the software. I don't want to spend my time, energy or money on that stuff!

I do also see these kinds of license trends as harmful to open source generally. It used to be that you could pick an open source project and build a business on it and expect that the project would stay available to you under those well understood terms. That's not the case any more - not just because of Redis, there are a number of other high-profile license rug-pulling projects. I'm sad about that.

(And yes, I do understand and dislike the trend of businesses building on open source without contributing back. There are no clearly correct answers here.)

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Post by bhouston »

echelon wrote: post #47
bhouston wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But if you wanted to have influence without a big pay check, why not join Valkey? Redis, the company, in your absence has gotten a reputation as a predatory company that has attacked open source projects in other to further those goals. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/redis... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39858144 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42239607

> why not join Valkey? Valkey is making it possible for hyperscalers to continue appropriating open source and charging fat margins to everyone else. In a sense, Valkey is the bad guy here. And just look at all the support Valkey is getting from Amazon, Google, Oracle, etc. They're perpetuating the problem. The same thing happened with Elasticsearch. Unfortunately ICs without decision-making power started lambasting…

> In a sense, Valkey is the bad guy here.

Are all the open source libraries that Redis depends on [1] also evil? Or are we just focused on declaring Redis competitors evil today?

[1] https://github.com/redis/redis/tree/unstable/deps

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Post by [deleted] »

metalnirvana87 wrote: post #50
bhouston wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Valkey also has the backing of The Linux Foundation. So maybe it just has a lot of backing in general. https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-launc... BTW are you an employee of Redis? You seem to have created this account just to reply to me.

And who funds the Linux Foundation? - it is the CSPs themselves - https://chatgpt.com/share/67587e4c-bde8-800b-9f0a-fc824d3d6f... Any thoughts on CSPs making money from open source projects while the open source developers (e.g., Redis, Mongo, Hashi) suffer)?

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