Comment by mFixman

1 year ago

> As a user, I don’t really care.

People should understand and be able to tinker with the tools they use.

The tragedy of personal computing is that everything is so abstracted away that users use only a fraction of the power of their computer. People who grew up with modern PCs don't understand the concept of memory, and younger people who grew up with cellphones don't understand the concept of files and directories.

Open-weight AI models are great because they let normal users learn how they can make the model work for their particular use cases.