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by vanuatu 5mo ago
not an astroturf and didn’t want to be associated with my main which has identifying info. Wanted to offer a perspective aside from the majority skeptic view on HN Also I provided the list of actual hype ha
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by vanuatu 5mo ago
agents are not used just for code they're quite generally intelligent, and you can leverage them in nearly every business function. marketing, sales, ops, research etc. which basically every business needs clearly we still need humans
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by vanuatu 5mo ago
I think this is reasonable If we start to see spend go down because projects fail and companies run the ROI calculation and determine it's not worth it, then ill stand corrected and happily admit that
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by vanuatu 5mo ago
can just ask chatgpt but off the top: code wrappers - cursor (special case), lovable, replit part model part applied - perplexity, 11labs, cartesia, suno applied branches of model labs - codex, claude code, deployment cos & fde teams ai
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by vanuatu 5mo ago
anthropic models are profitable fully loaded (rev - inference cost - training cost)
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by vanuatu 5mo ago
Do you need a study for when a trading firm reports PnL? Likewise when labs report 80x growth? There are applied AI cos making 100-400M+ in just a few years of incorporation, does that count as financial gain? Academia is currently 6-12mo b
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by vanuatu 5mo ago
Okay.
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by vanuatu 5mo ago
I'm curious as to where your perspective comes from. My view is they both have a clear use case for AI, because every business has a use case for more intelligence on tap. Enterprises big and small already shell out billions upon billi
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by vanuatu 5mo ago
Publications != talent anymore. The top talent work at labs that keeps most of their research secret. And Microsoft AI is not in that circle Not denying that China is a close #2 btw.
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by vanuatu 5mo ago
source: revenue, people opening their wallets
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by vanuatu 5mo ago
I hear this analogy (selling a dollar for 10ct) but it's unclear to me how we can cleanly map intelligence to cents. If the LLM was GPT-1, most people wouldn't even use it for free. So clearly there's another axis here?
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by vanuatu 5mo ago
Thank you for your perspective! I think it's obvious that demand is overwhelming supply right now. I agree that we don't know how much of the demand is due to perception, perverse incentives, or poor management, and how much of th
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by vanuatu 5mo ago
Thank you for sharing the article, it's an interesting perspective and I'm inclined to agree with the point about prior restraint. I'm sad that America is making it more difficult for foreign talent to come in. But with the f
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by vanuatu 5mo ago
If you've ever tried to start your own company in the US it's a grueling, insane warzone of competition That results in the winners providing insane value to both customers and equity holders
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Self actualized, high optionality
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by vanuatu 5mo ago
ai generated video script "Chinese models are what pretty much every AI company in the US is using now" - just untrue. you think people inside Cursor use composer for most of their work? haha the talent at the labs far surpasses t
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by vanuatu 5mo ago
Reasonable conclusion, if you think the entire software industry is rotten then accelerating rot won't do much I personally disagree with that worldview. (I read the article and the guy's tone is lowkey salty) The reality is it&#x
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by vanuatu 5mo ago
I think English is definitely a reason that I took for granted. To add to that from my experience: - The culture is, I think, the root of the flywheel. The entrepreneurship and competitive intensity is unlike anywhere else I've lived (
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by vanuatu 5mo ago
It's hard for me to reconcile this piece with my personal experience as someone who works in AI and knows many others that do The demand for AI is currently overwhelming. As in, can't build data centers and GPUs melting overwhelmi
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by vanuatu 5mo ago
From what I've seen, it's the opposite -- the whole value proposition of these companies is to take on brand liability and allow the agents to autonomously take actions.