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These are all pointless forks, they will die in a year. Bookmark this and check back.
by colesantiago 3mo ago
These are all pointless forks, they will die in a year.
Bookmark this and check back.
- xgulfie 3mo agoHonestly. Some LLM enthusiasts throwing an agent at making a fork doesn't mean anyone is invested in this
- rynn 3mo agoThat doesn’t mean they won’t be, or that the forks won’t be good.
- conorcleary 3mo agoall those youtube videos people upload nowadays aren't worth it, we already have keyboardcat (^ basically telling ppl creativity is done with, don't bother)
- qlte 3mo agoThe parent comment is just pointing out that LLM written forks pushed out within hours of a “buzzy” repo release on GitHub are a pretty useless signal for gauging actual adoption/interest. Which is, IMO, accurate based on the state of the AI dev space in 2026. Stars/forks drafting off the hype from a well known name are constantly gamed for eyeballs/personal brand-building courtesy of free advertising via the Github UI when the only cost is a few sentence prompt and some tokens.
- conorcleary 3mo agoI forgot the /s ;-)
- OsrsNeedsf2P 3mo agoWhile I'm sure most of them will die, there will certainly be 1 or 2 that the community rallies behind
- seanclayton 3mo agoWhy when they can just fork it and improve it on their own with AI?
- Barbing 3mo agoSubsidized tokens aren’t forever & local models might not compete with an entire team of volunteers, I’d guess.
- mirekrusin 3mo agoUnsubsidised token prices that people would actually pay for is a fantasy.
- jfoster 3mo agoI've been contemplating that recently. You're of course correct that subsidized tokens won't be forever, but that might only be half the story, since there's two opposing forces in action: 1. Phasing out of subsidized tokens. 2. Token prices being brought down through scaling, better hardware, etc. It's possible that these might balance each other out sufficiently that token customers won't notice any substantial increase in price.
- seanclayton 3mo ago> local models might That was yesterday's "LLMs might". Time passes. Nothing stays the same. "Local models might" X Y or Z today has no influence on the limitations of tomorrow's local models except to remove them. Yesterday's LLMs are the exact same thing, except your computer is connected to their local model for you to use. Disc drives used to be measured in megabytes—now in terabytes. Technically useful tend to get more optimized with time, not less.
- xboxnolifes 3mo agoEven if they are subsidized forever and local models do compete, its still better to have 100 people improving it rather than 1.
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- giancarlostoro 3mo agoOr maybe Grok Build will implement some of these changes and render them obsolete.