31–40 of 48 posts
Earlier quoted context omitted.
With a bit of education one would know that manus is Latin for hand. That's where "manual" comes from. And their logo is, lo and behold ... a hand!
So it is the Ancient Romans who were obsessed with butts. Got it.
Looking at that list, the top three companies are essentially about building apps without writing code. The next one is about helping developers write code. Perplexity is the only real outlier, and even that not by much. I am by no means an AI pessimist, but I can't help think where are all the awesome companies in other sectors that this technology is supposed to unlock. I understand that many industries will take y…
The other issue is that the value is more or less all in the LLMs (at the minute). For example, I built a data engineering toolkit using LLMs, it created synthetic data from examples, it created ingestion pipelines given different source filed and a target, it created data test rules. I liked my little toolkit and some people were impressed, but the value was all in the models that underpinned it. The crust of clever bits that added value was thin, very thin. Ok, we used the llms to generate some python that then created the synthetic data and testing rules to reduce costs, we had three or four "agents" that worked together to create the pipelines. We decorated target code with open provenance code to create provanance... But just by saying these things or letting you use the toolkit and you seeing what it made - that's enough for any half competent person to relicate it (with AI assistance) in an afternoon, or maybe a couple of afternoons. Maybe.
So, to create a viable company is going to take significant effort (if you can think of a value add) because the value add still has to be real.
[flagged]
I co-mentor with a large online school for an AI accelerator course. We get about 600 participants each month, paying about $500-600 for a 14 day course. I only co-mentor for 2 days - the days we teach fundamentals of software development and then show how to code with Replit, Bolt, Lovable, Emergent, etc. One of the most common questions is "can I build on xyz and shift to abc because I do not want to pay?" And anot…
And now Perplexity has mailed all of those "free" users to add a "card" (wont charge now) to continue with its free pro offer. Apart from airtel perplexity ran a lot of college based programs where students were basically referring each other for money.
I co-mentor with a large online school for an AI accelerator course. We get about 600 participants each month, paying about $500-600 for a 14 day course. I only co-mentor for 2 days - the days we teach fundamentals of software development and then show how to code with Replit, Bolt, Lovable, Emergent, etc. One of the most common questions is "can I build on xyz and shift to abc because I do not want to pay?" And anot…
I'll let GenAI complete that one.
It saddens me that we're making gezillions in complete hype businesses while people work their butts off for pebbles.
I co-mentor with a large online school for an AI accelerator course. We get about 600 participants each month, paying about $500-600 for a 14 day course. I only co-mentor for 2 days - the days we teach fundamentals of software development and then show how to code with Replit, Bolt, Lovable, Emergent, etc. One of the most common questions is "can I build on xyz and shift to abc because I do not want to pay?" And anot…
Wow.
Do these tools require training to use? Are they not really designed such that a 5 year old can use it? "build me a thing that does Y" style.
I co-mentor with a large online school for an AI accelerator course. We get about 600 participants each month, paying about $500-600 for a 14 day course. I only co-mentor for 2 days - the days we teach fundamentals of software development and then show how to code with Replit, Bolt, Lovable, Emergent, etc. One of the most common questions is "can I build on xyz and shift to abc because I do not want to pay?" And anot…
How would this work though? They give out free "credits" and then claim usage of those as ARR? That would be outright fraudulent, no?
Who is paying for those "Manus Credits"?