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How are you going to monetize this? I would be very nervous building a business around an extension calling someone elses API. You only have to look at the drama that played out at reddit a few weeks ago, to see how risky it is.

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Given it can run on other engines as well as self-hosted or local models, I don't think "calling someone elses API" is a major issue in relation to the reddit situation. If anything I'd argue this being both open choice and open source negates the concern of losing access to the software. As for continued development, it's about the same as any self-funded project: It's free, so don't expect the world, and if you end up relying on it as a company, it might make sense to forward some effort back to the project to keep it stable.

Great question! We plan to make money by helping organizations continuously collect, analyze, and train on their development data. This will let them a) understand ROI of using LLMs for coding and b) use models that are constantly improving from internal usage in their codebase.

As for the issue of being cut out from the OpenAI API, we would survive such a situation because we work with any model, including open source.

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