What Justin Frankel thinks about infrastructure

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American programmer who created Winamp and founded Cockos, maker of the REAPER audio workstation; writes about programming and the web on his site 1014.org.

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   Our readingThe better LLMs get at writing code, the more wealth will consolidate in megacorporations at the expense of independent software vendors.

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   Their wordsThe better LLMs get at writing code, the more consolidation of wealth will occur, as independent software vendors will not be able to compete with the multinational megacorporations that control all of our infrastructure (read that essay). This will be a very not good thing.

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