Douwe Osinga @dosinga

Software engineer, Traveller, Entrepreneur, Science enthusiast, currently @block leading the Goose Open Source Team github.com/block/goose Miami Joined July 2007

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Douwe Osinga @dosinga

3 days ago

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2 weeks ago

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a month ago

Yeah that. Open models are the way to go

🦔Microsoft canceled its internal Claude Code licenses this week after token-based billing made the cost untenable, even for a company with effectively infinite cloud resources. Uber's CTO sent an internal memo warning the company burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in just

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Douwe Osinga @dosinga

a month ago

In 2018 I took an Uberpool across Manhattan for $1.78, less than the subway. Today the same ride is $20 and nobody is surprised. Todays equivalent is @claudeai 's 200 dollar per month plan. 3 reasons the end of free tokens is near & what to do about it: douwe.com/blog/2026/0518/

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a month ago

@lucasmeijer Interesting. To me that post read like recycled marketing material written by an AI

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a month ago

@davidbyttow that sounds wise, but is it applicable here? the AI revolution that is underway is not gradual, not abstract and is immediately threatening. We're in a Willy E Coyote moment where we are over the abyss we just haven't noticed

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Douwe Osinga @dosinga

a month ago

Yup. Almost all commercial products have an open source version equivalent that is technically great but has a terrible UI. A question is of course, do you need PhotoGIMP or will an agent native GIMP be better anyway

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a month ago

Un youtuber brasileño le acaba de clavar un puñal a la suscripción de Photoshop. Se llama PhotoGIMP: un parche gratuito (GPL-3.0) que convierte GIMP en una copia casi idéntica de Photoshop. Misma interfaz, mismos paneles, mismos atajos de teclado y muchísimo más espacio

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Douwe Osinga @dosinga

a month ago

@mikebutcher it has the potential to move the "power" even more from labor to capital. if the agents manage the institutional knowledge, job safety weakens a lot

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a month ago

@ade_oshineye can you not use emax already for this? can you ever not?

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a month ago

@Dan_Jeffries1 Why would the chinese models stay open, do you think? seems to me more like a late to game move, which is usually followed with a quick closing up.

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Douwe Osinga @dosinga

a month ago

@bernhardsson Is that optimistic? People liking technology having fewer children, people liking extreme religions having more children can definitely impact evolution, but is that the direction you are rooting for?

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a month ago

@KatieS @claudeai It does feel like @claudeai is quicker to tire these days. I have had it ask me if we could take a break

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a month ago

PVV got 17% of the Dutch vote. Through first-past-the-post, they win 158 of 343 districts. Through ranked-choice, 39. Under a median-voter rule, 1. Same ballots, very different countries. Democracy by another word. douwe.com/blog/2026/0516/

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a month ago

@HenrM_Cruz Remember Apple's Ping?

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a month ago

@cosminnegruseri I think you see this a lot all over. We had some test that was more performative than qualitative but worked because it was proof of work. Now the AI can do the work, so the proof is gone. Same with resumes and linkedin posts being throughleadery -- ugh.

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Douwe Osinga @dosinga

a month ago

2.6B open source model generating up to a minute high quality video from one frame? That's insane! Maybe there is something to these world models after all. Can't wait to get my hands on the actual model nvlabs.github.io/Sana/WM/

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Douwe Osinga @dosinga

a month ago

well, I'm off google maps API now: theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/… -- it seems so weird to me that the default is that a maps API key can also be used for expensive inference and that @Google doesn't allow keys without billing and no budget

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Douwe Osinga @dosinga

2 months ago

I wrote a post: blog.douwe.com/2026/05/the-we… Every LLM contains a wildly lossy “compression” of the web. Even for URLs that never existed. I built a browser for it: the Web of Babel.

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Douwe Osinga @dosinga

2 months ago

The three most valuable companies today ($NVDA, $AAPL, $GOOG) raised around 50M together. Now Anthropic raises 10x that and it barely makes the news. Interesting times. techcrunch.com/2026/04/20/ant… /cc @Julie188

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Douwe Osinga @dosinga

2 months ago

I'm going to be in SF from Wednesday on - come and hangout at luma.com/75auv0v7 - I'll talk a bit about some of the new ideas about automatic wiki writing