Crying wolf bites back?
This looks like a giant PR stunt to me. Maybe they got jealous of spacex's IPO and want to jack up their initial stock price even more?
I feel that the US should step up their legislation game and make sure these companies can't retroactively make rules to steal their users data.
I know it's trendy to hate the EU but their legislation actually protects the users, and not the companies interests.
I'm pretty sure we all took down a production enterprise system once or twice. At InVision we had an incident every week, despite all the SOPs and safety nets. And that way waaay before vibe coding..
I've connected it with my vscode copilot and took it for a ride. I've tried both flash and pro.
For a small POC flash was sufficient enough, quite fast, and dirt cheap. It did stop a few times (maybe latency issue?) but it did a good job.
I used the pro to do some heavy lifting, planning, etc. and it did a fantastic job.
I paid ~10 cents for a small proof of concept, that worked exactly how I prompted it.
For me, this is a real alternative after I cancel my github copilot towards the end of the month..
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I feel like this is the classic tale of corporate greed. Startups should stay startups.
From the users perspective, I always hated the fact that you are the product.
They create a great software, give you nice things, you fall in love and start to use the software, even advertise it in your circles because it's soo good. Then they sell the whole thing with you and your bros for big buck, and the new management slowly start to squeeze all the money out of it to justify the purchase while ruining the product.
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On the same logic, youtube, facebook, google, etc. should not be owned by the parent company in other countries than the US because of the influence they have on ppls opinions (on policital elections and whatnot)