Just Make Everything Free
Ed Grosvenor and Peter van Dijck are back. Ed has made Scalpels free for end users, and Peter wants to know why his solution to everything is to just make it free.
Ed's bet: when anyone can one-shot an app, the tools themselves are cheap, but well-built, maintained, self-hostable ones are a great way for freelancers and agencies to win work. Peter shows how he uses a golden dataset and a human review panel to move his classification tasks onto a cheaper model, and how he keeps a mental model of a system that changes every day by having Claude maintain a map of its concepts. Ed explains his…
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