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I'm not really saying that small companies should never compete with big companies. I'm saying that a small company whose biggest competitor is also their key
by ForHackernews 3y ago
I'm not really saying that small companies should never compete with big companies.
I'm saying that a small company whose biggest competitor is also their key supplier is, if not doomed, at least operating on borrowed time. If my value proposition is reselling AWS hosting with an easy-to-use dashboard, I better pray to god Amazon never makes AWS simpler.
- ado__dev 3y agoI feel like that can be said about any SaaS app. The reality is, mega-corps move very slowly and often can't deliver the same user experience as a start up. If everyone had the approach of "well I shouldn't make this app because if Google wanted to, they could do it in a few weeks" we wouldn't have 90% of the startups we see today.
- fragmede 3y agoAren't we all operating on borrowed time though? Even if some company exists for 3 years and is able to founders a small acquihire exit, what's wrong with borrowing some time from AWS/OpenAI? We can't all come up with PageRank and patent it and form a company around it.
- skybrian 3y agoFrom the article, it sounds like they are using Claude? Maybe there's more than one possible supplier. There probably will be more. Edit: looks like the autocomplete provider is configurable in the VS Code plugin settings. Not sure what the default is.
- ado__dev 3y agoCurrently for chat we support Claude 2, Claude 3 Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus, GPT-4 Turbo, and Mixtral 8x7b. For autocomplete we're using Starcoder 16b. We also support local inference with any LLM via Ollama (this is experimental and only for Cody Free/Pro users). Enterprise customers can choose which LLMs they want.