is it a net-win for the company? Are the AI-TOD any good?

Sometimes, yes. Other times, no. It depends who's leveraging the technology to write these things. Though even in the positive outcome cases, the volume alone is suffocating. My brain doesn't have time to commit all of it.

what would you say the disconnect was? Was it a simple case of that your teams' not comfortable with merging AI code?

Or maybe the AI tools don't do what the advertising says they do.

Well if knowing what to build is still the moat, then at least someone knowing that that was _actually_ built is still super important, no?

nothing foolish about trying even if he too thinks it's inevitable. it's foolish however to think that there won't be nuances of such a future (and somehow no one can influence the nuances).

yup - security reviews.

run it hosted on another provider - it's less censored there

actually distillation is without weights - you basically just need a black box teacher model.

try on another provider - it is open weights.

it will be more expensive when subsidization ends? how is it going to be more inclusive?

agreements don't always hold up to legal scrutiny. In cases where it is unreasonable, it won't be able to stand up in court. And in any case, this is not a legal matter but a user experience / public opinion one

You're right, it's not a legal matter. You and I will readily agree that bundling a 4 GB language model with a Web browser is unreasonable, but how do you envision making that case in court?

My guess is that maybe one in 1000 Chrome users will even notice it.

you are being very disingenuous. there are certain expectations from a software vendor. taking things into extreme, if something install malware as an update on your computer, is it not a silly claim that it is free for vendor to do so?