It should be the duty of slopcoders to dissolve the market of any VC takeover immediately by standing up a carbon copy. Yes I know it’s not that easy, but it’s alluring to destroy big tech using big tech.

What they need to do: reinvent themselves. What companies do when profits are down anyway: squeeze your customers who are fully vendor locked until they are dead.

A guy on HN forked as “gram” https://codeberg.org/GramEditor/gram he doesn’t intend to pull everything from upstream

Prawn star was the best I’ve seen

My favourite take so far is the comparison to the introduction of the microwave. Some people really believed that they’d never have to cook again. So what we got was actually a way to make crap quality meals or reheat things when we don’t have time. This is roughly analogous to the output I get from the LLM.