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erazog These apps are not credible for any kind of professional company, things like support actually matter. Useful to one man shops but thats about it. Reply
vargavision erazog said: These apps are not credible for any kind of professional company, things like support actually matter. Useful to one man shops but thats about it. That's how they all started. The only thing that will stop this person for making a fully blown pro level program will be law suits from patent trolls. Perhaps that person will stop at personal use and optimize it. Either way a lot of software companies are on notice – open source is the way to go. Reply
rgd1101 vargavision said: That's how they all started. The only thing that will stop this person for making a fully blown pro level program will be law suits from patent trolls. Perhaps that person will stop at personal use and optimize it. Either way a lot of software companies are on notice – open source is the way to go. if the ai create the program. wonder who going to win Reply
adamXpeter vargavision said: That's how they all started. The only thing that will stop this person for making a fully blown pro level program will be law suits from patent trolls. Perhaps that person will stop at personal use and optimize it. Either way a lot of software companies are on notice – open source is the way to go. No, the "mainframe" is the way to go. This is the end of local computing. Reply
edgarmilvus Very interesting, especially because they can be used with AI agents, and without a user interface you can have them carry out tasks and automatically create complex documents. I'm preparing an ebook on this that will be out in a few days. Reply
USAFRet edgarmilvus said: Very interesting, especially because they can be used with AI agents, and without a user interface you can have them carry out tasks and automatically create complex documents. I'm preparing an ebook on this that will be out in a few days. You don't need "AI" to create an ebook. Write your book. Proofread it. Have others proofread it. Then, there are any number of easy tools to convert it from whatever format you wrote it in, to whatever format your ebook publisher needs. Unless of course, you're letting the AI write the thing for you. In which case, why do we need you? Unless, of course, you're just writing a book about AI in publishing….;) Reply
adbatista USAFRet said: You don't need "AI" to create an ebook. Write your book. Proofread it. Have others proofread it. Then, there are any number of easy tools to convert it from whatever format you wrote it in, to whatever format your ebook publisher needs. Unless of course, you're letting the AI write the thing for you. In which case, why do we need you? He said he is preparing an ebook on this (using agents), not that he is going to use AI to write it… Reply
USAFRet adbatista said: He said he is preparing an ebook on this (using agents), not that he is going to use AI to write it… And I thought of exactly that, after I posted. Reply
ezst036 erazog said: These apps are not credible for any kind of professional company, things like support actually matter. Useful to one man shops but thats about it. A comment like this entirely misses the point. Microsoft and Adobe and other companies could fairly easily port their applications over to Linux or other platforms. They simply choose not to. And the tired old argument of "yeah but then we have to support it" doesn't work when millions of people are trying to get off of old platforms and would get off of old platforms but for this one singular blocker – it's all an exercise in nonsense. These are paying customers who would continue on paying, but be much happier making their own choices and guiding their own futures. So those support costs would, yes, be covered. The companies, again, simply do not want to. These companies have a vested interest in preserving the old ways of doing things in the larger context, much moreso than the singular product they are associated with. These companies will one day have to be dragged by the scruff kicking and screaming into accepting what we the customers desire, instead of we the customers constantly having to be limited by what they the lazy corporations desire. Reply
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