Why is significant economic value the metric for success?
Skoda publishes the research and design openly (no patent, no product for sale), to solve a real problem (increase in bike-related accidents from noise cancelling headphones), to ensure that the safety outcome can be spread as quickly and easily as possible.
We should be celebrating companies that open source material findings related to safety, not lambasting them for not exploiting it for maximum value.
it feels disingenuous to lump this in with most of the other items you listed.
I always found it odd that the marketing successfully pivoted the term Cloud Native from meaning 'managed services consumed as APIs over the internet' to a generic umbrella for self-hosted versions of the cloud control planes and container management tooling.
That isn't a dig at the particular tools themselves - they just aren't... you know... cloud.
The bet is that compute gets cheap enough before the crunch that it won't matter. You should model it at 10x - but you also need to factor in NPV and opportunity cost. Even if pricing spikes later, the value extracted at today's rates might still put you ahead overall.
The relevant comparison for most enterprise isn't whether $15/PR is subsidised - it's whether it beats the alternative. For most shops that's cheap offshore labour plus the principal engineer time spent reviewing it, managing it, and fixing what got merged anyway. Most enterprise code is trivial CRUD - if the LLM generates it and reviews it to an equivalent standard, you're already ahead.
Building out test infrastructure for correctness to support the project sounds like a fantastic idea.
That said, while it's compatible with Linux via fuse, unless you're helping to build RedoxOS, I don't think there's any real expectation that you would try it.
Skoda publishes the research and design openly (no patent, no product for sale), to solve a real problem (increase in bike-related accidents from noise cancelling headphones), to ensure that the safety outcome can be spread as quickly and easily as possible.
We should be celebrating companies that open source material findings related to safety, not lambasting them for not exploiting it for maximum value.
it feels disingenuous to lump this in with most of the other items you listed.