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I don't see what's particularly terrifying about building on OpenAI. Yes, services can deprecate or shut down. That's true for any old service and also true fo
by jstummbillig 3y ago
I don't see what's particularly terrifying about building on OpenAI.
Yes, services can deprecate or shut down. That's true for any old service and also true for new stuff. They might swap things around but obviously OpenAI will not die of attrition any time soon.
Secondly, it's not like OpenAI has a complicated API. Far from it. Any other LLM API is basically the same, just because the components are so straight forward. So, given enough capability from competitors, as far as SaaS lock-ins go, this is fairly cushion-y.
What remains is a testament of how singularly potent you think the product might be and how much it would advance your stuff beyond what any other product can do. That strikes me as a rather questionable reason to not make use of it, if getting stuff done, efficiently, is what you want.
- croddin 3y agoYou could look at it as the chat requests being the API, which is simple yes, but in a way the prompts you would write could also be considered the API, in which case it is the most complex API ever. People aren't worried about having to change the first one, it's the prompting needing to change/ model not having the right capabilities.