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Ironically you are participating in the social signalling ("crappy, cheap phone") phenomenon you claim doesn't exist. https://mashable.com/article/apple-messag

Ironically you are participating in the social signalling ("crappy, cheap phone") phenomenon you claim doesn't exist. https://mashable.com/article/apple-messages-green-doj https://mashable.com/article/apple-messages-green-doj https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/apple-green-bubble-message-lawsuit-19361393.php https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/apple-green-bubble-messa...

ericmay 5mo ago
Ok just remove "crappy" then and replace with low-quality. We can differentiate on low-quality, high-quality, and more when talking about consumer products. I'm going off of rough memory here, but don't like half of all Americans have an iPhone? Do half of all Americans own a Porsche?
- ForHackernews 5mo ago
  Fine, if you don't like the iPhone analogy then look at Coca-Cola vs store brand Super Cola. They are both brown sugar water, but Coke is Coke. People buy Coke because of the brand, the image and (maybe a little bit) because of the taste. There is no equivalent in LLM land. AI models are not like Coke vs Other Cola. AI is like electricity or water, a generic commodity with minimal cost or friction to switching. I can flip the VSCode plugin between a dozen different models a day.
  - ericmay 5mo ago
    > They are both brown sugar water, > AI is like electricity or water, a generic commodity with minimal cost or friction to switching. I can flip the VSCode plugin between a dozen different models a day. I don't think that's the case, and as companies continue to build out AI products we will move more into opinionated workflows and different vendor design patterns precisely because the model you suggest will result in a race to the bottom which is the opposite of the intended business model.
    - ForHackernews 5mo ago
      > precisely because the model you suggest will result in a race to the bottom which is the opposite of the intended business model. Yes, exactly. That's how capitalism works. No business plan survives contact with the market.

ericmay 5mo ago

Ok just remove "crappy" then and replace with low-quality. We can differentiate on low-quality, high-quality, and more when talking about consumer products. I'm going off of rough memory here, but don't like half of all Americans have an iPhone? Do half of all Americans own a Porsche?

ForHackernews 5mo ago
Fine, if you don't like the iPhone analogy then look at Coca-Cola vs store brand Super Cola. They are both brown sugar water, but Coke is Coke. People buy Coke because of the brand, the image and (maybe a little bit) because of the taste. There is no equivalent in LLM land. AI models are not like Coke vs Other Cola. AI is like electricity or water, a generic commodity with minimal cost or friction to switching. I can flip the VSCode plugin between a dozen different models a day.
- ericmay 5mo ago
  > They are both brown sugar water, > AI is like electricity or water, a generic commodity with minimal cost or friction to switching. I can flip the VSCode plugin between a dozen different models a day. I don't think that's the case, and as companies continue to build out AI products we will move more into opinionated workflows and different vendor design patterns precisely because the model you suggest will result in a race to the bottom which is the opposite of the intended business model.
  - ForHackernews 5mo ago
    > precisely because the model you suggest will result in a race to the bottom which is the opposite of the intended business model. Yes, exactly. That's how capitalism works. No business plan survives contact with the market.