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by davnicwil3 hours ago |
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upvoteby BadBadJellyBean2 minutes ago|
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> It's a very tough spot they're in.

It's a very tough spot they put themselves into. If the goal wasn't to get filthy rich quick it would probably be possible to make a good product without that tough spot.

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upvoteby jimbokun20 minutes ago|
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You know, it’s stuff like this making me think maybe the anti capitalists have a point.

A company makes a popular product customers like, but to satisfy the VCs the company must make a product the customers don’t like but could make the VCs more money.

Not sure this is the “invisible hand” Adam Smith had in mind.

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upvoteby charcircuit8 minutes ago|
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In order to make more money you have to make a product customers want.
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upvoteby jimbokun2 minutes ago|
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According to the comment I replied to you have to make the product VCs think will make VCs the most money, even if that’s at odds with what your customers are telling you they want.
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upvoteby runarberg5 minutes ago|
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Anti-capitalist here: Our point is actually the same point as the one Anti-feudalists had. The consumer hostility observed under capitalism is simply a corollary.
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upvoteby rustystump1 hours ago|
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It is interesting that i find composer to be one of my favorites as while it is a bit dumb it is about 100x faster than the fat boys.

Sometimes u need the beef of opus but 80% composer is plenty.

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upvoteby rubyn00bie46 minutes ago|
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I have been on the fence if I think composer is useful, but the speed argument is one I hadn’t really considered. I use cursor with Opus almost exclusively but the other day I tried using OpenCode locally with a 6-bit quantized version of Qwen 3.5 and holy crap the speed and latency were mind blowing. Even if not quite as sharp as big boi Opus and the gang.

Now you’ve got me thinking I should give composer another go because speed can be pretty darn great for more generic, basic, tasks.

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upvoteby epolanski14 minutes ago|
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The cancer: growth at every cost or die.

God forbids you make a great product in a specific niche and are happy with the money flowing.

Nope, has to be more.

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upvoteby htrp3 hours ago|
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> They've obviously had a go at being a first-party model company to address this, but that didn't work.

I thought there was an entire initiative to build their own coding model and the fine tunes of in Composer 1.5 and Composer 2 were just buying them time and training data

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