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And that's why GenAI for code is gaining popularity.
It's not because it's better than free open-source libraries. It's because it's better marketed.
Eh, Claude's cutting edge frontier models are definitely better than the good open source models which lag a bit behind. The good open source models are still useful though but you'd get noticeably better performance with the closed model which is why even companies that are perfectly capable of locally hosting an open model choose to pay anthropic a premium.
Maybe but that wasn't my point. My point is that a lot of people now invest a LOT of resources, being token, money, time, etc to invent the wheel again. Instead of relying on e.g. Drupal they'll "generate" yet another CMS which will work (for a while, in theory) not because it's a good idea (IMHO it's not) but because it's been marketed as doable and even "better" on some aspects (e.g. customizable).
Ah, you're referring to local rewrites of utilities that already exist?
I agree that agents are making more in house utilities which can be wasteful. The shift certainly isn't helped by the increase in supply chain attacks though.
Yes, I didn't know the expression "local rewrites" but that seems to capture it well.
My bet it's another version of the inverse of Not Invented Here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here where the IT department or a random manager claims that whatever was generated is "theirs" implying agency. They don't realize that each iteration will get harder and more expensive (bigger context window) while alternatives have accumulated thousands and thousands of "bugs" or even just usage highlighted limits of their implementation. So they are re-inventing their version at great cost and in the end the difference between what they worked on is basically equivalent of open source equivalents but with no community support and instead a dependency on models and infrastructure they don't own.