Cooking fun AI systems & products @databricks. Prev: co-founder & CTO @ Hyperbolic, OctoAI (acquired by @nvidia) Apache TVM, PhD @ University of Washington.
2 things are happening:
- Frontier LLM coding capability plateaued. Since Opus 4.8, we haven’t seen massive jump.
- OSS models keep closing the gap with frontier closed models, while costing 10x-50x less.
That’s why we’re seeing a massive shift from closed models to OSS across enterprises.