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While I agree with you, as a happy GPT4 plus customer, I'm worried about the inevitable enshittification downhill roll that will eventually ensue. Once marketi
by keyle 3y ago
While I agree with you, as a happy GPT4 plus customer, I'm worried about the inevitable enshittification downhill roll that will eventually ensue.
Once marketing gets in charge of product, it's doomed. And I can't think of a product startup that it hasn't happened to. Particularly with this type of growth, at some point, the suits start to out number the techies 10:1.
This is why openeness and healthy competition is primordial.
- ethbr1 3y agoIt's not marketing, it's economics. If you set money on fire -- eventually there's a time when you need to stop doing that.
- layoric 3y agoI think the parent is more talking about the other common situation where organizations start focusing on maximizing profits, rather than just working towards a basic profitability. Eg, Google Maps API pricing comes to mind. Yes, OpenAI might be (we don't know how much) burning through their $5B capital/Azure credits now, but I think the `turbo` models are starting to addressing this as well. And $20/month from a large user base can also add up pretty quick.
- ehnto 3y agoYou do see VC bloat up company sizes for what could have been a very profitable small to medium sized private business, without enshittefication, had they not hired dozens more people.