What David Crawshaw thinks about open source

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Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.

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8 Feb 2026

Our readingLocal AI models will eventually catch up to frontier models once frontier progress hits diminishing returns.

Their wordsAt some point frontier models will face diminishing returns, local models will catch up, and we will be done being beholden to frontier models.

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