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NamlchakKhandrotoday at 8:37 AM2 repliesview on HN

because it's easier than paying $50k for local llm setup that might not last 5 years.


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dannersytoday at 8:49 AM

Well, yes. They know what they are doing. They know when given the option the consumer makes the affordable choice. I just don't have to like or condone their practices. Maybe instead of taking on billions of dollars of debt they should have thought about a business model that makes sense first? Maybe the collective "we" (consumers and investors, but especially investors) should keep it in our pants until the product is proven and sustainable?

It will be real interesting if the haters are right and this technology is not the breakthrough the investors assume it to be AFTER it is already sewn into everyone's work flows. Everyone keeps talking about how jobs will be displaced, yet few are asking what happens when a dependency is swept out from underneath the industry as a whole if/when this massive gamble doesn't pay off.

Whatever. I am squawking into the void as we just repeat history.

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player1234today at 12:27 PM

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