Developer: depending on two unreliable AI labs is chaos — open weights win long-term

StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-10-18

Stewart Alsop III vents about splitting work across two unreliable foundation labs where models can be nerfed without warning. He argues reliability, privacy, and cost savings mean open source — open infrastructure plus open weights — wins on the long timeline, pointing to his episode with @notdevin. The attached screenshot shows a transcript postmortem of an AI coding session where progress was described without reliable completion evidence.

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