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> The user without empathy has managed to save 30 minutes on a task One supplier ended up with a direct sale they wouldn’t have otherwise
by r3trohack3r 2mo ago
> The user without empathy has managed to save 30 minutes on a task
One supplier ended up with a direct sale they wouldn’t have otherwise
- rootusrootus 2mo agoAnd if all of their customers start doing this, then they're going to need to jack up prices to cover all of their costs dealing with the deluge.
- inigyou 2mo agoThey'll probably just generate the quotes with AI, which is fair.
- sebastiennight 2mo agoIIUC, so far the supplier has only ended up needing to send samples and a quote to a prospect, and no sale has actually happened. So as of today, everyone is showing a net negative result except whichever company sells the Grok bot tokens. If that company is subsidizing the price of the bot with VC money and not turning a profit, then as of today, 40 suppliers, 1 HN member, all Grok/SpaceX investors, all Nasdaq index investors, and probably some others, are showing a net negative, and the only company showing a positive result from all this is NVidia.
- simgt 2mo ago> the only company showing a positive result from all this is NVidia Everyone upstream of the AI labs should be showing a positive result, that includes all the companies needed to actually build the chips and the datacenters around it. If they aren't too incompetent, they should end up with a pile of cash regardless of where their stock goes when the bubble pops.
- taneq 2mo agoNormally you’d get 2-3 quotes, meaning suppliers would on average get a sale for every few RFQs they respond to. Now guys like this twiddle one knob and generate 20x as much RFQ spam, costing suppliers 20x as much. It’s tantamount to a DoS attack.