I figured you wouldn’t be able to look past your own personal experience. I’m sorry to say that most people outside your bubble cannot afford either the subscription nor the hardware to run usable LLMs locally.

“Sharing code is bad now” because a handful of companies scraped it and not only they haven’t given anything back, they are reselling it in different shapes, and telling people that now all that data is proprietary. So, yes, stolen is an apt word for it.

Anyway, all this talk about “democratizing” knowledge is bullshit. Libraries democratized knowledge. The internet democratized knowledge. Anyone can learn how to code if they put the time and read a book and practice.

But delegated thinking is the opposite of acquiring knowledge, so what the hell are you people yapping about.