[McAtNite]

Unfortunately I’m not aware of the reference to the HN Dropbox thread.

I suppose my counter point is only that the user base that relies on simplified solutions is largely already addressed with the wide number of cloud offerings from OpenAi, Microsoft, Google, whatever other random company has popped up. Realistically I don’t know if the people who don’t want to use those, but also don’t want to look at GitHub pages is really that wide of an audience.

You could be right though. I could be out of touch with reality on this one, and people will rush to use the latest software packaged by a well known vendor.

[thecal]

It is probably the most famous HN comment ever made and comes up often. It is a dismissive response to Dropbox years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

[McAtNite]

Thanks for the explanation. I guess my only hope for not looking like I had a bad opinion is people’s intertia to move beyond CoPilot.

[anonymousab]

> the user base that relies on simplified solutions is largely already addressed

There is a wide spectrum of users for which a more white-labelled locally-runnable solution might be exactly what they're looking for. There's much more than just the two camps of "doesn't know what they're doing" and "technically inclined and knows exactly what to do" with LLMs.