One of the beauties of the tech industry is that anyone can learn how to program. Most languages are open source and a lot of the foundational software that make up the bedrock of the most powerful tools today are also free and open source. It’s telling that agents were primarily trained on effective unix.

I think no one can deny that frontier models, especially playing around with Fable, that institutions will be separated by those that are willing to spend and those that can’t afford to. The dynamic feels dramatically different from the previous age where anyone learn how to Google effectively to be frontier productive. Will open source models eventually be good enough or will compute be cheap enough that this won’t be a concern? For some reason this is keeping me up at night. Fable feels like an end of an era for what was solidly a democratized profession.