AI tokens are a commodity. They're the bottom of the value-chain and they're all converging onto the same performance.

What matters for the future is what killer apps can be built on this commodity (tokens)?

Right now we've got content/text generation and ... nothing else?

owebmaster 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

> Right now we've got content/text generation and ... nothing else?

Software operators. LLMs can operate any kind of software (check MCP). If you reduce this to just "text generation", what else is left?

	▲	solid_fuel 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		> LLMs can operate any kind of software (check MCP). But they can't be trusted to do so in a reliable and sane way. Until the issues with hallucination and prompt adherence are resolved, including the issues with context injection, LLMs aren't any more useful for general software operation than `/dev/urandom` is. Every time we get a "Gemini deleted my production database!" story everyone goes "well obviously you shouldn't have trusted it with production access". I don't play russian roulette with my CLI, why would I add a layer of uncertainty on top?

> What matters for the future is what killer apps can be built on this commodity (tokens)?

AI chatbots in pdf viewers!

Oh wait.. we already have that and it's useless.

Hi, I'm Clippy! It looks like you are trying to read a document. Do you need assistance?

	▲	ajsnigrutin 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		- Introduction to C programming language.pdf "I see you're trying to kill children, may I recommend the following methods: - zyklon B - hammer - shotgun"