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overgardyesterday at 8:22 PM1 replyview on HN

I'm curious just because you're well known in this space -- have you read Ed Zitron's work on the bubble, and if so what did you think of it? I'm somewhat in agreement with him that the financials of this just can't be reconciled, at least for OpenAI and Anthropic. But I also know that's not my field. I find his arguments a lot more convincing than the people just saying "ahh it'll work itself out" though.


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simonwtoday at 12:42 AM

My problem with Ed is that he's established a very firm position that LLMs are mostly useless and the business is a big scam, which makes it difficult to evaluate his reporting.

He often gathers good information but his analysis of that information appears to be heavily influenced by the conclusions he's already trying to reach.

I do pay attention to him but I'd like to see similar conclusions from other analysts against the same data before I treat them as robust.

I don't personally have the knowledge or experience of company finance to be able to confidently evaluate his findings myself!