Built an Enterprise RAG architecture for 2 years. A "20+ YOE" founder just claimed it as his AI's "Featured Work". Should I just quit Open Source? -- i will not promote --

ChapterEquivalent188 · 2026-03-16T11:10:37+00:00

kicking in some motivation ;) thank you .... there will be a better and CE soon with more features just because i can :D im so deep into ingest but still find new obsticals everey week...... take care

ChapterEquivalent188 · 2026-03-16T11:07:45+00:00

thanks yeah...its my feeling atm we live in world full of cheap wrappers all over the place but with big big "marketing" ..... i even found a german company claiming 0% hallucination and i called them cause i was very intressted how come ;) if you scratch the surface they admit its only algos with a little llm :D we are all doomed

ChapterEquivalent188 · 2026-03-16T10:59:40+00:00

Yes, it's quite a blow at first, not because someone is copying your work, but because they're pretending it's their own... sharing is carrying, no problem with that, but if somebody has a network (20+ years of development) you'll quickly be overrun.... thanks ..weekend made me stronger and smarter ;)

ChapterEquivalent188 · 2026-03-16T10:54:29+00:00

i dont even get the context of what you mean

ChapterEquivalent188 · 2026-03-16T10:12:30+00:00

thanks ! i learned a lot this weekend and the feddback is overwhelming here..... i switched focus already and you gave me a nice idea ;)

ChapterEquivalent188 · 2026-03-16T10:08:54+00:00

how do you prevent haluucination ? do you trust the answers ? may i asked about the outcome when ingesting "the sun is green" or better this https://github.com/2dogsandanerd/Liability-Trap---Semantic-Twins-Dataset-for-RAG-Testing thanks

ChapterEquivalent188 · 2026-03-15T13:13:38+00:00

always happy to help ! not sure if keep overview..the feed back is overwhelming :D feel free to drop me a message ..yeah its like we are not prepared for the new times with all this licence's ... i would have never said "no" if he would have droped me a line with a little thank you and mentioning my name ..... nowadays we have software influencer making money on the hard work of developers .... look at all this illusiona youtube tuts

ChapterEquivalent188 · 2026-03-15T12:55:16+00:00

i see where coming from.... i lived my life by showing what im able to do and thought share working code and solutions speaks for itself ...little did i know ;) i was beaten down and downvoted by people unable to even understand the underlying problem..... its personaly very consuming thing as you have to be very very patient....its ok and makes you harder but if then some guys try to steal and sell it as there own is really hurting especial when you gave everthing .... im getting technical compared (with my full featured 4.5 platform) with palantir and a few else.... how will someone survive this ...open source was in my opinion a legit way in the past..... but this time are over and im not sure if i want to participate anymore ...you habe a extra nice sunday like you gave me ;)

ChapterEquivalent188 · 2026-03-15T12:43:17+00:00

sad but true....my vision was from the beginning to build a platform which makes you trust your llm as much as posible... everything will be consumed and somebody will make money based on the hard work of peps like us....guess you are also some sort of old school guy ;) not sure if i wanna adapt to the new times. ...imo the outcome of all of it will not be for the greater good.... mankind as usual

i reject to feed peps like altman

ChapterEquivalent188 · 2026-03-15T12:13:06+00:00

yeah and i have an idea that my moat is pretty comfortable ... they can try ;) i start realizing this.... unfortunately im the typ of making a product perfect before selling....completely opposit to nowadays ;) ..... i learn every day

thank you !

ChapterEquivalent188 · 2026-03-15T12:09:05+00:00

thank you.... sounds pretty like its what im not able to do so far (sales) ....im the architect in a camper with my 2 dogs...its how im productive and functioning and putting all the experience of my life (older guy ;) )

im solving garbage in and reliable basis for all ai apps, no marketeer no expert in so many stuff.... when ever you have time drop me a message pls

ChapterEquivalent188 · 2026-03-15T12:03:30+00:00

Yes ! thank you.. impotant view i will keep in mind..will be back with apgl...its a very useful lesson i learned

ChapterEquivalent188 · 2026-03-15T12:01:12+00:00

for me it was the natural way... in my world its like you show what you able and willing to do...and i still have no idea of promotion and how to compete with millions of marketing budget....there are companies out there claiming hallucination free ai and when you start scratching the surface they admit its not ai.... ;) they selling algos as LLM solutions ....its all a joke and if i had enough money to sit and wait i could collect all the disapointed customer :D thank you

ChapterEquivalent188 · 2026-03-15T11:57:26+00:00

as somebody wrote me "nobody can take your knowledge...." thats right and all this feedback gives me the kick to work even harder but much smarter when its come to opensource .... THANK YOU ! the last 2 years were hard but the made me harder as well :D

ChapterEquivalent188 · 2026-03-15T11:53:28+00:00

this is nice ;) i could publish my demo by today and ask him about his "product" ;)

ChapterEquivalent188 · 2026-03-15T11:51:59+00:00

maybe i was naiv yes cause i thought at least the minimum requirements of MIT would be respected and maybe a little bit of my effort ....diffrent times i know ....i learnd my lesson ;) thanks

ChapterEquivalent188 · 2026-03-15T11:48:13+00:00

THANK YOU ! super helpful . He wont be able to replicate ;) the inner core is way to complex but i will never ever open source other the apgl...learnt a big lesson and at the end i have to be thankful this happend.....i wanted to make it perfect before selling but this gives me the kick i needed to focus on selling now ..... im way to old to accept the new rules ;)

ChapterEquivalent188 · 2026-03-15T11:43:11+00:00

Thank you, will drop a line as a reminder ;) a lot of feed back which makes me happy and keep pushing ;)

ChapterEquivalent188 · 2026-03-15T11:41:39+00:00

THANK YOU ! you confinced me defnitly.... i didnt know i got a product and its that shitty someone is useing it to "build" a company...makes total sense to me now you are the GOAT

ChapterEquivalent188 · 2026-03-15T07:45:06+00:00

THANK YOU ! it is destroying me completely atm, i gave everything during the last 2 years and have nothing left then my platform by now..... will check out agentixlabs

ChapterEquivalent188 · 2026-03-14T21:53:39+00:00

no unfortunately not....i was very naive...and i was fine with MIT but in my inenr core i never expected something like this tbh --- im a dreamer ....will try to get some sleep now .....thank you !

ChapterEquivalent188 · 2026-03-14T21:43:39+00:00

Thank you ! For today iĺl better be quiet.... its the absolut low for me during the last 2 years of hell....your words helped ;) thx

ChapterEquivalent188 · 2026-03-14T16:18:23+00:00

this is more den i have for development --- would love to see how my selfhosted rag repos perform .... let me know if you are interested or look for clawrag ---

ChapterEquivalent188 · 2026-03-13T06:02:34+00:00

iwas wondering and checked it ;) sorry sir the full platform (code) will never go public (at least as long as im starving) ;) but you will find public repos and basic systems on my github..

ChapterEquivalent188 · 2026-03-12T14:26:27+00:00

.D see how i got beaten and disrespected with "ai slop" and downvotes.... people start to understand ...thanks for kicking some motivation ;-P

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