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Part of this post is very similar to a famous reply from Dropbox launch on hb when someone said roughly: "why do we need Dropbox, here's steps to roll your own"

• popcorncowboy 3y ago
  This trope gets trotted out every time someone casts a skeptical eye on buzzy tech. In this case GP is saying that OpenAI, Microsoft and Google's apps are already "Dropbox-y" enough and that (paraphrasing fairly hard) the flood of "AI" startups are wafer thin combinations of "Bootstrap UI + GPT API calls + a vector store". Maybe there's a killer unicorn app hiding in one of those wafer thin wrappers, but OP's point is precisely that it's disappointing how wafer-ish all these "exciting applications" actually are, relative to the massive sense of expectation that existed only a few months ago.