Aggressive marketing (including daily posts on HN). Many people simply don't know about alternatives, there are many people who never heard about pi and opencode and live comfortably in claude-codex bubbles.
replyI find it curious that almost every AI post has way more comments than other posts, and I sometimes wonder how big of a part agents play here. I can't seem to distinguish whether it's just real interest in the subject or a big campaign trying to influence people's opinion
replyIt's on top of mind for everyone in the software development industry (be it SWEs, product people, designers, managers...), as it's such a "cross-cutting" concern, I am not surprised it's always on the HN front page.
replySure, some Rust 1.98.7-beta release is interesting to some, but AI affects most of us, one way or another.
I (and many other people I personally know, so they are not botfarms) feel many different strong emotions regarding AI on a daily basis: anxious, frustrated, tired, bored, suprised, entertained, empowered, optimistic, pessimistic, usually all of it almost every single day.
It could be.
replyMarketing is irrelevant.
replyCompanies will keep using Google/Microsoft/Amazon cloud offerings due to the ease of extending existing contracts and procurements.
Virtually all my clients use Bedrock or Azure with zero data retention. Not one would use openai/anthropic or chinese cloud offerings.
Only devs do so.
Could you not argue that local hosting of open-weight model with ZDR, and possibly even fine-tuned on your company's proprietary data is even more secure, compliant, and cheap than just letting OpenAI/Anthropic train their models on your responses? Obviously C-Suite often never sees this far into the future, but I'd argue that there's virtually zero downside to this approach.
replyThe hardware prices to support this proposal would make by Business Head's eyes pop haha
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