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Alex Kretzschmar

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
808 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

I don't know how big of a risk, but it's a risk in all of this.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

That doesn't bother me, really.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

The other downside, of course, is that

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

how did these models get smart in the first place?

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

They got smart off the back of all of our open source sharing.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

And now we're just feeding back themselves into themselves.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

There's got to be a reckoning.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

Yeah, I think there's a bunch of people, a huge tranche of people, actually, that kind of miss the forest for the trees in this regard.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

My take is typically a pragmatic one of, well, if I don't upskill and use these tools and I don't start solving these problems for myself using these tools, someone else will, and then I'll become less relevant as a human.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

So I think that the superpower of these things in the long term is the empowerment they give the individual to solve their own problems and scratch their own itches, which then feed into your collective experience as a human to solve other problems down the road.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

And you both make each other better in the long run.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

It's going to be really interesting how the business models of these, of these AI companies play out over the longterm, but I'm optimistic that they won't all be complete.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

You don't seem optimistic.