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I worry that Hugginface is on path to becoming another Docker Huge contributions to the industry, everyone uses it (or something that came after it) but nobody
by kiratp 4y ago
I worry that Hugginface is on path to becoming another Docker
Huge contributions to the industry, everyone uses it (or something that came after it) but nobody pays or wants to pay for it.
The first place I look for a new model is Hugginface.
However using them for inference (seemingly their revenue play) basically always ends up in a very unfriendly build vs buy as they don’t eliminate the need for one or more ML engineers.
Paying x% over infra costs for managed models on my choice of cloud only works if I don’t also have to spend to hire ML engineering at the same rate regardless.
I want them to succeed.
- neximo64 4y agoOr Github?
- andruby 4y agoUsers do a lot of "work" on Github (PR reviews, issues, etc). Afaik, users usually don't spend that much time on huggingface.
- capableweb 4y agoYeah, it's very much a in-and-out experience, like Docker Hub. My typical workflow involving huggingface: - Try to find appropriate model, play around with some of them until I find one that is appropriate, pull it down locally and close the huggingface tab.
- neximo64 4y agoThere's also the chance you're just not one of those users
- rob74 4y agoYeah, even the name sounds suspicious... sure, it's a nice and friendly emoji, but remember the facehuggers from Alien? Once they got you, you were screwed - which could also be a metaphor for relying too much on any platform that may be here today and gone (or not affordable anymore) tomorrow...
- swyx 4y agoindustry insider friends have indicated to me that this isnt true, they are doing well in enterprise. not that i would know but guessing mid 7 digit arr by now. they are hub first. not a Docker situation.