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AI App Graveyard

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Re: AI App Graveyard

#11

Post by babl-yc »

There are a ton of companies that are basically a wrapper around GPT-4 with some minimal amount of application code. These folks can create impressive demos that wow minimally informed investors, but the reality is that if it took a few weeks to make there's no defensibility.

I see the profits in the current AI hype cycle going to the leading foundational model company (why pay for the 2nd best?) and the companies that already own customer relationships and integrate AI into their existing products (Microsoft, Adobe, Autodesk, etc).

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#14

Post by travisgriggs »

websap wrote: post #8

This is sad. As technologists we should celebrate folks who tried to build new services and applications. It would be good to document these and explain why they didn't work.

Agree to disagree?

This is a satire of how our current incentive system disproportionately allocates resources in a fad fashion, not unlike how the waves sloshed around the fish tank you tried to deliver to your girlfriend, only to discover 2/3s of the water was spilled all over the back seat and the fish with PTSD are now staring askance at you.

If this were a post titled "Open Source Operating Systems Graveyard" or some such, where it was demonstrable that the pursuits were those primarily of creativity, rather than something closer akin to carpetbagging, then I might agree with your expressed regret.

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Post by sasaf5 »

travisgriggs wrote: post #14
websap wrote: post #8

This is sad. As technologists we should celebrate folks who tried to build new services and applications. It would be good to document these and explain why they didn't work.

Agree to disagree? This is a satire of how our current incentive system disproportionately allocates resources in a fad fashion, not unlike how the waves sloshed around the fish tank you tried to deliver to your girlfriend, only to discover 2/3s of the water was spilled all over the back seat and the fish with PTSD are now staring askance at you. If this were a post titled "Open Source Operating Systems Graveyard" or…

> not unlike how the waves sloshed around the fish tank you tried to deliver to your girlfriend, only to discover 2/3s of the water was spilled all over the back seat and the fish with PTSD are now staring askance at you

Is this comparison out of creativity or experience? :)

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