It's laughable to suggest few people can change OpenAI's destiny by not using uv. Even if Astral goes bottom up, nothing happens OpenAI. So it's not like using ChatGPT.
not sure it always could. we had to continue using conda for binary packages like cudann, or anything where a wheel wasn't available (nvidia now has Jax-compatible wheels for cuda packages, but it didn't before)
You're asking for something different here. What conda does is package all binary dependencies (e.g., libpq, cuda) that normally should be dynamically linked and provided by your OS.
The pip ecosystem (including uv) doesn't encourage this. Although you could and many have, the build tools don't support it as first class.
For why? Ask what happens if you want an updated version or specific version of CUDA? The library author must add support for runtime linking or users would have rebuild the entire conda package.
- "unemployed anyway" does not appear in the post you reply to.
- They gain market share and goodwill from fools. Not all gains have to be immediate monetary gains.
You could as well say that using ChatGPT is beneficial since it causes losses to OpenAI right now.