alt Hacker NewsOnly a short matter of time before agentic tools start serving ads too - paying user or not. You want to refactor your codebase ? No issue - taking 30 seconds - please view this ad meanwhile.
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It’s worse than that. It will be more akin to ad placement in movies, except in this case it will slip this proprietary library into the suggested solution instead of that one. Or embed ads in the solution code.
How soon will coding agents start injecting paid saas service calls in the code? And when in agentic mode, automatically sing up the coder to them?
Why stop there? You want to refactor your codebase? Sure, but you need to adopt this dependency and this cloud service.
Mixing Ads or sponsorships to influence LLMs is a really, really bad idea. Especially when they're competing with Search ... which means that for some, "AIs" are the only window into the world when looking something up.
Only a matter of time before using coding agents with local LLMs is a viable alternative.
They don't need to make us view ads anymore...just say
,,Allow Vercel to use credit card stored by OpenAI''...click to continue refactoring
It will be like AdWords, pay to have specific token output replaced by your trademark.
this_variable_is_sponsored_by_coinbase = 42
I’m just exaggerating … I hope.
Extra convenient because people are already used to these things taking several seconds to respond.
I highly doubt this one. These agents are pretty interchangeable, any one of them could decide to not show ads and steal huge market share. Programming is one of the few areas they can actually make gross margin, so ads would be a terrible business decision given the above. The ad revenue from it would be insignificant against the API calls / subscriptions.
Maybe that could result in a free tier? If the numbers work out
"This bugfix is brought to you by ... Costco"
You won’t just be viewing an ad, you will have to actively engage in a minute long sales talk with the LLM.