Ask HN: Currently, is it better to work on AI shovels or AI applications?

Post by poochi » Sat, Feb 01, 2025, 7:23 AM UTC

latexr wrote: post #2

You stretched the analogy too far, to the point it doesn’t work at all. The advice to sell shovels works because shovels are cheap, already invented, simple, proven to work for their purpose, and can be bought in bulk. None of that is true in your analogy. If anything you have it backwards and the LLMs (or eventually AGI) are the “gold” everyone is chasing. The low-effort crummy products that shove AI for the sake of…

Post by poochi » Sat, Feb 01, 2025, 7:37 AM UTC

Post by poochi » Sat, Feb 01, 2025, 7:45 AM UTC