73% of AI startups are just prompt engineering
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73% of AI startups are just prompt engineering
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#2People talk about an AI bubble. I think this is the real bubble.
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#3So? 73% of Saas startups are DB connectors & queries.
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#473% of startups are just writing computer programs
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#5A long time ago a mentor of mine said,
"In tech, often an expert is someone that know one or two things more than everyone else. When things are new, sometimes that's all it takes."
It's no surprise it's just prompt engineering. Every new tech goes that way - mainly because innovation is often adding one or two things more the the existing stack.
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#6Prompt engineering isn't as simple as writing prompts in english. It's still engineering data flow, when data is relevant, systems that the AI can access and search, tools that the AI can use, etc.
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#7So? 73% of Saas startups are DB connectors & queries.
And 73% of paas are deploy scripts for existing software. It's how the industry works.
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#8So? 73% of Saas startups are DB connectors & queries.
The difference is, if your company “moat” is a “prompt” on a commodity engine, there is no moat.
Google even said they have no moat, when clearly the moat is people that trust them and not any particular piece of technology.
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#9The really impressive thing about AI startups is not that they sell wrappers around (whatever), but that they are not complete vaporware.
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#10Prompt is code.