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Of course companies have died because of quality issues. Framing it as "they produce something people love but the quality is subpar" is a false framing. There
by brigadier132 3y ago
Of course companies have died because of quality issues. Framing it as "they produce something people love but the quality is subpar" is a false framing.
There are no subpar products that people love. First of all, "quality" is relative. See chatgpt, it's wrong half the time, in a decade if someone were to release a chatbot of chat gpt quality we would say it's terrible. But today, it's the best we have.
The classic story is how airbnb and stripe launched without coding anything, everything was done manually.
Now launch an airbnb competitor today using the same strategy. Obviously comparing yourself to airbnb is dumb, because back then all software was terrible.
The actually successful modern companies of the past few years are openai, tiktok and figma. They all launched with complete products and are massively successful. That's what it takes today.
> I have seen companies die trying to perfect software no one is buying though, quite often.
Most companies die.
- anonylizard 3y agoQuality is absolute. There were multiple LLMs released before ChatGPT, none made any splash, including GPT-3. Meta released one like 2 weeks before ChatGPT, and had to shut it down for bad output quality. Only GPT3.5 started to meet the 'wow factor' for it to go fully viral. Until a product hits a minimum quality threshold, its useless. Which is basically what you stated later. Now most areas are mature enough that a copy pasted solution hits that minimum threshold (Eg, setting up a basic ecommerce site with ordering and payment). But for uncharted territory, that threshold is very real, hit it or die.