but the opposite is actually true. u can use ai to bypass a lot of SaaS solutions

So you are saying now that you can bypass a lot of solutions offered by a mix of small/large providers by using a single solution from a huge provider, this is the opposite of a centralization of power?

>"by using a single solution from a huge provider"

The parent didn't say that though and clearly didn't mean it.

Smaller SaaS providers have a problem right now. They can't keep up with the big players in terms of features, integrations and aggressive sales tactics. That's why concentration and centralisation is growing.

If a lot of specialised features can be replaced by general purpose AI tools, that could weaken the stranglehold that the biggest Saas players have, especially if those open weights models can be deployed by a large number of smaller service providers or even self hosted or operated locally.

That's the hypothesis I think. I'm not sure it will turn out that way though.

I'm not sure whether the current hyper-competitive situation where we have a lot of good enough open weights models from different sources will continue.

I'm not sure that AI models alone will ever be reliable enough to replace deterministic features.

I'm not sure whether AI doesn't create so many tricky security issues that once again only the biggest players can be trusted to manage them or provide sufficient legal liability protection.

with ai specialized hardware you can run the open source models locally too and without without the huge provider stealing your precious IP

ah, so what you are saying is this: now you can buy your own specialized hardware, which is realistically produced and sold by a single company on earth, compete with ~3 of the largest multinational corporations to do so (consider the ram prices lately, to get a sense of the effect of this competition), spend tens of thousands in the process, and run your 'own' model, which someone spends millions to train and makes it open for some reason (this is not a point about its existence, its about its reliability. I don't think its wise to assume the open models will be roughly in line with SOTA forever). This way, by spending roughly 1-2 orders of magnitude more, you can eliminate a handful of SaaS products that you use.

Sorry, I don't see this happening, at least not for the majority. Even if it does, it would still be arguably centralizing.

i had idea like this when gpt first came out but decided not to go down this route because idk at what point to automate and at what point to refine and just seemed too complex and now tools like claude cli seem to make more sense for devs. but as internal b2b tool for non technical with predefined schemas and apis and very strong ui rules (eg u must use this library/component/pattern at all times for X or Y) u COULD generalize but then it would also be impotent to fork and extend those that already been made and without bugs or be able to fix bugs..and the second u need something slightly non trivial would need to be able to “drill down” to fix this or fix that or tweak or whatever so just becomes to vibe code and deploy so maybe like to vibe code harder and faster and deploy faster but maybe with enough rhfl it would be viable… i can imagine like some sort of fluid experience especially for learning or research where u just need to process and visualize some data and don’t care about stuff breaking because its internal tool

this is not how you fix poverty. u need to reinforce self motifvation, self care, discipline...not reinforce scratch off state run lottery addiction so you can get more federal funding or whatever

can someone explain to me the difference between MCP and calling a cli tool eg curl or whatever i still don’t understand i’ve been using ai for years now.

MCP is tool calling with continued context/rich context, tool calling alone will PROBABLY die after single call whereas MCP keeps continuity by design (You can use MCP for tool calling but not vice versa). Hope this help you understand.

no still doesn't make sense lmao. you call api and get output, no?

80% and 77% is not that much lol

electron is just a wrapper for the browser tho

It funny that despite how terrible, convoluted and maladapted web tech is for displaying complex GUIs it still gradually ate lunch of every native component library and they just couldn't innovate to keep up on any front.

Amazon just released OS that uses React Native for all GUI.

It's easy to design bad software and write bad code. Like the old saying: "I didn't have time to write you a short letter, so I wrote you a long one". Businesses don't have time to write good and nice software, so they wrote bad one.

If they have time to write nice software, they generally can only afford to do it once.

Lots of Electron apps are great to use.

Why do you consider Electron maladapted? It has really reduced the friction to write GUIs in an enterprise environment.

I didn't really mean Electron, but rather unholy amalgam of three languages, each with 20 years of "development", which mostly consisted of doing decrapifying and piling up new (potentially crappy) stuff. Although Electron with UI context and system (backend? background?) context both running js is another can of worms.

> It has really reduced the friction to write GUIs in an enterprise environment.

Thereby adapted to devs' needs, rather than users'.

Drug dealer thinking.

i’m being reasonable, look at top hitter apps like sora 2 and the type of content it’s used for and simply extrapolate to other similar industries. but just because market favors certain behaviors and values doesn’t mean you have to follow those values or try and influence the world in to your own vision based on what you think others should value.

It is not always a question of whether something can be done but whether it should it be done. Everyone has different lines they set concerning behavior. At one time I thought the Amish were kind of weird for not using public grid electricity. Amish do not have anything against electricity - the Amish as a community assesses adoption of new technology from a perspective of how it influences their community. Money is not the only metric of success.

Instead of synthetic porn lets substitute cigarettes. Is it ok for people to sit in a public place and subject everyone to toxic gases. Collectively we in the US have decided to restrict smoking in public places. Or is it ok to provide a 14 year old Bourbon for breakfast. Most of would say no even though we would permit a 18 to do it if they want.

can > should, forever and always...freedom of choice. the question is values and actions you take that align with those values. also your example is moot...there is plenty of shit you and everyone else does everyday that's "bad" for you and you don't even realize or think about it.

i think the stuff posted here is mostly designed for devs as the end consumers

once u mess with it enough u will realize that u need physics math that relies on a function that uses the previous state to interpolate between different states. u can use great libraries such as https://motion.dev/ for this