It's an honest opinion that I had put into a blog post. It's written by me, though I did use LLMs to review and improve it (no copy pasting). I still feel like the analogy between early browsers and the current state of AI stands. There is in a sense a war being fought out and there are emerging standard and there is lot's of glue around that to make it work.
For what it’s worth, I did think it was an interesting line of thought -
The thing about LLM-generated content is that in order to get tracking it can’t look like it. Can’t read like it, can’t use the wording or the style of prose. It’s too much of a turnoff, it provokes revulsion.
You’re better off doing the opposite - use the LLM to help you with your initial content, then finish it yourself, taking care to remove the ‘tells’
The war part is more about the competing AI companies. It's meant to be an analogy to the "browser wars" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_wars). Not meant to be BS, I just wanted to use the terms that were used during the early days of browsers.
That looks very interesting. Though, we’re also a hosting platform in addition to the nice APIs and SDKs. Plus, we provide observability and much more. Still, something to explore. Thanks for sharing.
That's a great idea. We'll add that asap. More broadly, we're working on documentation that explains Metorial, and it's sub-components, in more detail.
Just for context, it's as simple as 1) creating an OAuth Sessions (https://metorial.com/api/oauth-session) which includes a URL which you 2) pass on to your user's to authenticate at and you're done.
Thanks for pointing that out. Ultimately, we wanted to strike a balance between being fair and open to the community, welcoming contributions, and ensuring that people can self-host without having to worry about licensing issues, while also ensuring that Metorial, as a company, can exist and work on OSS sustainably. This isn't easy and I don't think there's a right answer. To us FSL strikes a pretty good balance. Allowing the community to use and participate while ensuring that Metorial makes sense as a business as well.
That's a really interesting point. We've actually been discussing this quite a bit. We felt like putting an emphasize on the "dev tool" aspect (like Vercel) makes more sense, but the way you put it we might want to reconsider that. Thank for your interest!
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