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"eye-watering, blistering growth from the new hot applied AI startups and labs" Could you give us a few examples?
by bwestergard 8mo ago
"eye-watering, blistering growth from the new hot applied AI startups and labs"
Could you give us a few examples?
- simonw 8mo agoClaude Cowork was apparently built in less than two weeks using Claude Code, and appears to be getting significant usage already.
- sjaiisba 8mo agoOnly a personal anecdote, but the humans I know that have used it are all aware of how buggy it is. It feels like it was made in 2 weeks. Which gets back to the outsourcing argument: it’s always been cheap to make buggy code. If we were able to solve this, outsourcing would have been ubiquitous. Maybe LLMs change the calculus here too?
- bwestergard 8mo agoThat's certainly a good example of a tool developed quickly thanks to AI assistance. But coding assistance tools must themselves be evaluated by what they produce. We won't see significant economic growth through using AI tools to build other AI tools recursively unless the there are companies using these tools to make enough money to justify the whole stack. I believe there are teams out there producing software that people are willing to pay for faster than they did before. But if we were on the verge of rapid economic growth, I would expect HN commenters to be able to rattle these off by the dozen.
- ej88 8mo agoclaude code 1B+ arr ant 10xing ARR, oai harvey legora sierra decagon 11labs glean(ish) base10(infra) modal(infra) gamma mercor(ish) parloa cognition regulated industries giving these companies 7/8-fig contracts less than 2 years from incorporation