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Den Datafag Trollmann
in reply to Den Datafag Trollmann • • •he's talking about copilot
lord please strike him down with lightning, just explode him
pistolero
in reply to Den Datafag Trollmann • • •Haelwenn /элвэн/
Unknown parent • • •pistolero
Unknown parent • • •@mangeurdenuage
> That has been the strategy of all proprietary SaaSS since forever.
Yeah, have worked at several VC-funded startups, I know. The question is why are they still spending this much on user acquisition.
pistolero
in reply to Haelwenn /элвэн/ • • •@lanodan @mangeurdenuage I don't mean the general case.
In the specific case of Microsoft spending nuclear-plant levels of electricity and doing massive pushes to send people out to train other companies to use Copilot more, pushing "FREE COPILOT!" on VSCode users and Github users, and having quotas for a percentage of lines of code generated rather than written, right? They're spending way more on this than seems reasonable in order to corner a market that will not ever be profitable.
There's something they believe about this market that is not obvious to me; I am curious what it is.
gentoobro
in reply to pistolero • • •Nietzschean Ekko Enjoyer
Unknown parent • • •@gentoobro
I just want to buy a house. I'm pricing my service accordingly.
No investors. No Uber model where I lose money on every chat because some VC is picking up the tab. None of that shit. I won't do it. I hope that can itself be a selling point. "There is no end game. I want to be making some sort of profit the entire time."
No need for exponential growth on the exponential growth to please investors.
The problem here is, the people most likely to want that sort of firm at the same people likely to turn up their nose at *anything* I sell, especially if it's an AI product.
@p @lanodan @hj @Hoss @mangeurdenuage
gentoobro
Unknown parent • • •LLM's have a promising future to replace low-level call center workers, professional translators (a huge industry, I know), and minimum wage corporate photoshop monkeys. These are legitimate uses that will benefit the world, but it's not a gold rush even though all the suits are acting like it. With any luck, the Mark Cubans of this cycle will hodl all the way into bankruptcy.
I think we're seeing some degenerate, collapsing-empire shit here. The sclerotic, hyper-regulated, hyper-inflating, socialist-all-but-in-name economy has been dead for a while and the only big gains to be made are on asset bubbles and scams, so everybody is looking for "the next big
scamthing," be that AI, electric cars, cryptocoins, regulation-dodging taxi services, or orbital burrito delivery systems. Nobody is looking to run an honest, modest, and consistently profitable business.gentoobro
in reply to Nietzschean Ekko Enjoyer • • •Aka normal, profitable, sustainable business, not run by compulsive gamblers.
If there's no market for your product, find a new product. But there's very likely a market, especially among other small but serious business owners. It's really hard for them to find good, reliable partners and suppliers that aren't trying to run a scam and won't just evaporate when interest rates rise 0.5%.
pistolero
Unknown parent • • •@r000t @gentoobro @lanodan @Hoss @mangeurdenuage
> It's called a "lean startup" and some guy even wrote a book about it.
They just call it a business or a service; it's a reasonable thing to do.
The VC-fund dicks call this stuff a "lifestyle business": plebs that are just running a business to support their lifestyle rather than disrupting moonshots.
Nietzschean Ekko Enjoyer
in reply to gentoobro • • •@gentoobro
In 2013 I learned that the only way I could fathom starting a business had a special name because nobody ever does it anymore.
It's called a "lean startup" and some guy even wrote a book about it.
@p @lanodan @hj @Hoss @mangeurdenuage