Antirez likens today’s model-distillation fight to Redis’s old database wars
antirez · x · 2026-07-23
Antirez says the current “they distilled our models!” moment feels similar to Redis’s old database battles.
He compares today’s model-distillation complaints to the period when Redis was winning fast and competitors responded with technical objections, personal attacks, and eventually copycat products sold after the fact. The point is not the literal analogy, but the pattern: when a category leader moves quickly, the arguments against it often shift from product quality to ideological or technical purity tests.
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