> Moreover, companies could be less willing to pay for services that their internal AIs can handle or build from scratch.

Companies have to be a bit more farsighted than this thinking. Assuming LLMs reach this peak...if say, MS says they can save money because they don't need XYZ anymore because AI can do it, XYZ can decide they don't need Office anymore because AI can do it.

There's absolutely no moat anymore. Human capital and the shear volume of code are the current moat. An all capable AI completely eliminates both.

It's a bit scary to say "what then?" How do you make money in a world where everyone can more or less do everything themselves? Perhaps like 15 Million Merits, we all just live in pods and pedal bikes all day to power the AI(s).

▲ anon-3988 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Isn't this exactly the goals of open source software? In an ideal open source world, anything and everything is freely available, you can host and set up anything and everything on your own.

Software is now free, and all people care about is the hardware and the electricity bills.

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bamboozled 5 days ago | parent [-]

This is why I’m not so sure we’re all going to end up in breadlines even if we all lose our jobs, if the systems are that good (tm) then won’t we all just be doing amazing things all the time. We will be tired of winning ?

	▲	anon-3988 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		> won’t we all just be doing amazing things all the time. We will be tired of winning ? There's a future where we won't be because to do the amazing things (tm), we need resources that are beyond what the average company can muster. That is to say, what if the large companies becomes so magnificiently efficient and productive that it renders the rest of the small company pointless? What if there's no gaps in the software market anymore because it will be automatically detected and solved by the system?

▲ AdieuToLogic 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

>> Moreover, companies could be less willing to pay for services that their internal AIs can handle or build from scratch.

> Assuming LLMs reach this peak...

  Generative AI != Artificial General Intelligence

> Human capital and the shear volume of code are the current moat. An all capable AI completely eliminates both.

I would posit that understanding is "the current moat."