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Developers, Don't Despair, Big Tech and AI Hype Is Off the Rails Again


Cicero is a private, self-hosted AI assistant that combines robust capabilities with an unwavering commitment to user privacy and security.

The current batch of frontier LLMs can barely churn out 100+ line snippets of usable and clean Rust code, and they want me to believe in one upgrade they're going to be hammering out large enterprise-level, secure, polished, and production-ready systems? Big tech derives the majority of its wealth not from technology, but through sophisticated and exploitative algorithms that entrap our mental faculties and bend our perception allowing them to sell ads. No matter what modifications are made, or how much data and compute is thrown at transformers, it will never gain common sense, intuition, novel thought generation, grounded worldview based on physics, reasoned judgment from a human-centric view, and others, all of which will be required for AI to move outside its current excellent role of augmentor.

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