3 ms·
This piece, while providing context, makes me question basically everything about Redis, despite it's lovely API. Antirez extolling the virtue of the current L
by ribadeo 2y ago
This piece, while providing context, makes me question basically everything about Redis, despite it's lovely API.
Antirez extolling the virtue of the current LLM wave of hype coupled with his bizarre apologism for Redis Labs behavior is less strange than "why is this guy not 1)personally extremely wealthy 2)having reserved some key powers and control from Redis Labs from day1 such that he could have steered this, aka why content to be a somewhat powerless entity throughout the whole story of what happens to rhe software he wrote"
I also felt like the entire essay felt milquetoast as if Antirez was assigned to do damage control and upon recitation of the actual events, felt the need to defend his own choices to himself, as if he didn't even believe himself, defensive?
I have a huge amount of respect for the core design and its philosophy, FWIW
- ribadeo 2y ago"Hapless" is the word that comes to mind. I mean, if the OSS you write gets commercialized and you aren't the one commercializing it...
- saghm 2y agoTo play devil's advocate, even though I'll probably never write anything remotely close to as popular as Redis, if by some cosmic accident I accidentally make something open source with enough popularity that it could be made into a business, I wouldn't have any desire to be the one to do it because I have zero interest in owning or running a business in the first place. I don't think it's really that bizarre or hard to imagine that someone like making things that people find useful but not want to have to spend the immense time and emotional energy into being in charge of turning it into something that makes a profit. Some people are genuinely not motivated by money beyond enough to be comfortable, and I firmly believe that's not a bad thing!
- matsemann 2y agoWhy do you think they would be extremely wealthy, given it's a product they're giving away for free, and it was everyone else (like cloud providers) making money off of it?
- o_m 2y agoRedis is valued at roughly $2 billion. The author owned all of it at some point. It is not strange to assume they would be wealthy.
- Jonanin 2y agoWhat's truly bizarre is the popularity on this site of questioning someone's own stated experience with finding LLM tools useful. On a site called hacker news, that usually celebrates useful computer tools. I'll never understand the obvious luddism here.
- sharpshadow 2y agoWhy do you assume that he isn’t extremely wealthy? Given the timeline leaving before the change and coming back after with the mentioned stock options one could almost assume it was his idea.