"Be Different" doesn't work for building products anymore
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"Be Different" doesn't work for building products anymore
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Re: "Be Different" doesn't work for building products anymore
#2> Your company can scream to anyone that listens that all the competition is AI SLOP, but when hundreds of companies are pitching the same solution, your one voice will get lost.
If you cannot out compete "AI SLOP" on merit over time (uptime? accuracy? dataloss?), then the AI SLOP is not actually sloppy...
If your runway runs out before you can prove your merit over that timeframe, but you are convinced that the AI is slop, then you should ship the slop first and pivot onec you get $$ but before you get overwhelmed with tech depth.
Personally, I love that I can finally out compete companies with reams of developer teams. Unlike many posters here, I was limited by the time (and mental space) it takes to do the actual writing.
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#3> Your company can scream to anyone that listens that all the competition is AI SLOP, but when hundreds of companies are pitching the same solution, your one voice will get lost. If you cannot out compete "AI SLOP" on merit over time (uptime? accuracy? dataloss?), then the AI SLOP is not actually sloppy... If your runway runs out before you can prove your merit over that timeframe, but you are convinced that the AI i…
What company did you outcompete
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#5> Your company can scream to anyone that listens that all the competition is AI SLOP, but when hundreds of companies are pitching the same solution, your one voice will get lost. If you cannot out compete "AI SLOP" on merit over time (uptime? accuracy? dataloss?), then the AI SLOP is not actually sloppy... If your runway runs out before you can prove your merit over that timeframe, but you are convinced that the AI i…
Your comment encourages me to make an AI SLOP version of a product I had in mind.
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#6The honest reading of this is that everyone is able to deliver "good enough" and caring has become worthless.
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#7Bullshit. Practically an AI slop article itself. The rest of us actually building products know reality is different because we’re intimately familiar with our competitors and their limitations.
Copying and playing catch up was possible before AI.
I really wish we could downvote submissions like this. It adds nothing of meaning to the discussion of the subtleties of competitive product development.
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#8> Your company can scream to anyone that listens that all the competition is AI SLOP, but when hundreds of companies are pitching the same solution, your one voice will get lost. If you cannot out compete "AI SLOP" on merit over time (uptime? accuracy? dataloss?), then the AI SLOP is not actually sloppy... If your runway runs out before you can prove your merit over that timeframe, but you are convinced that the AI i…
But you're not just trying to out compete one AI slop, you must compete with ALL of them. And over time the AI slop to thoughtful company ratio is only going to increase
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#9So where are all the successful AI slop products?
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#10The honest reading of this is that everyone is able to deliver "good enough" and caring has become worthless.
Yes, this is why the biggest winner of LLMs is off-shoring