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Ines Montani
Personal blog · ines.io/blogaiprogramming
Ines Montani's personal blog at ines.io covers ai and programming. Since 2017, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “How not to talk about an AI-powered future”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Ines Montani's blog for its writing on the business side of open-source NLP, including spaCy's approach to funding, and as a counterpoint on technological progress.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I’m a software developer working on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing technologies, and the co-founder and CEO of Explosion, makers of spaCy, one of the leading open-source libraries for NLP, Prodigy, a modern annotation tool for machine learning, and Ellf, a virtual assistant
Most-linked posts?
- How not to talk about an AI-powered future3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-03-09
- Reflections on running spaCy: commercial open-source NLP2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-28
What Hacker News says?
We actually don't believe in soliciting donations. Ines explains our thinking here: https://ines.io/blog/spacy-commercial-open-source-nlp#moneti... Basically: donations can only be made from personal funds, but most of the benefits from the software will go to commercial users. That's a pretty lopsided dynamic.
Comment linking /blog/spacy-commercial-open-source-nlp
on “SpaCy 2.0 released”Submitted A beginner's guide to making beautiful slides for talks as a story · 257 points
HN discussionInes Montani provides a counterpoint [1]. She doesn't address flying cars specifically, but she says: We didn’t build a machine to operate a broom – we built vacuum cleaners. We didn’t engineer wings for firefighters – we built fire extinguisher drones. We also didn’t create robot personal shoppers – we built online stores. A flying car is perhaps similarly a rather old-fashioned idea of what a futuristic utopia sho…
Comment linking /blog/wired-brain-ai-powered-future
on “Progress, Stagnation, and Flying Cars”Submitted How not to talk about an AI-powered future as a story · 46 points
HN discussionThis was so awful I unfollowed the author's RSS feed after following it for his experimental project years ago. Which was closed source and appears to have never released anything. I know plenty of closed-source tools that provide their authors significant income while benefiting from a healthy relationship with open source. Pico-8, which has a strong community of people who share game code, and Prodigy, which close…
Comment linking /blog/spacy-commercial-open-source-nlp
on “Open source is stifling progress”Submitted The Window-Knocking Machine Test as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reflections on running spaCy: commercial open-source NLP as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Wired Brain: How not to talk about an AI-powered future as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Wired Brain: How not to talk about an AI-powered future as a story · 3 points
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