Posted by hauju 1 day ago
- there is no product built yet, just a potentially one-shotted idea
- the creators are insecure or untruthful about what their product could do, hence faking it with a demo
- lack of effort to create real screenshots and walkthroughs of the product
Here is where I think the entire financial contraption falls apart. Because the moment the cost of doing this stuff becomes again financially comparable to the mental/resources cost we needed to program it manually (and therefore refrain from doing it), we will start just... not doing it anymore.
If we instead will be able to still do it, it will mean that the cost of this has stayed as low as now (or gotten to free due to open models), and that will spell doom for the financials of the services enabling the LLMs to do this.
It's a catch22 for Anthropic and OpenAI, and either way they're dead in the water (financially, again, because their products as tools are indeed incredible. yet, they don't create enough value).
This, and the fact that other really value-adding breakthroughs that would justify the trillion dollar bet they're still making are nowhere to be found, except in the doomsday predictions of the AI-psychotic.
And until the cost of running LLMs exceeds the cost of someone's salary, people will continue their subscriptions.
But they do more than enable the superfluous add-ons, and have been inserting themselves as being mission critical in securing software. "Subscribe. Or else!"