The business model of Tinder etc. isn't to find you the love of your life, it's to keep you on their site, making you pay for as long as possible.
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@maschinentraum Every comparison is flawed. The comparison is not the point. You find "addictive" the better term, and you are also right. What they have in common, though, is that both aim to keep you locked in, ideally indefintely.
@jwildeboer this is something we totally can agree on
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So in my personal opinion, just as with many other things, it is better, though much more work, to be in control and to own the tools you use. Domain-specific, small LLMs work. Are they worth it? You will only know if you own them and have to shoulder the full cost yourself.
Digital autonomy or sovereignty comes from taking that perspective and responsibility. It is also defining for your personal autonomy.
That's my food for thought that I share with you. Think about it before you "yes, but".
@jwildeboer Absolutely. And let's not forget the sheer *joy* of being in control of your own computing. Of understanding how things work. Of being able to fix things when they break.
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The business model of Tinder etc. isn't to find you the love of your life, it's to keep you on their site, making you pay for as long as possible.
The business model of Big AI isn't to solve your problems with the least amount of tokens. It is to keep you close enough to *think* you might soon have the solution while you keep on spending more and more tokens.
Both (and many other services) make their money based on hope, not on results. That's my opinion.
@jwildeboer The LLM AI make lots of mistakes and one can't trust their answers and shouldn't give personal information to them but:
1. I use Claude code (code agent) and it's very helpful in coding speed and finding performance issues and finding cause of bugs. They are definitely great technology and tool.
2. I used general LLM AI such as chatgpt and it guided me through some problems very fast that the information of it was very hard to find with searching in websites and would take me few hours to search. -
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