| ▲ | ossa-ma 9 hours ago |
| Every startup is at the mercy of the big 3 (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google). They can and most likely will release something that vaporises the thin moat you have built around their product. This feels like the first time in tech where there are more startups/products being subsumed (agar.io style) than being created. |
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| ▲ | xlbuttplug2 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| > They can and most likely will release something that vaporises the thin moat you have built around their product. As they should if they're doing most of the heavy lifting. And it's not just LLM adjacent startups at risk. LLMs have enabled any random person with a claude code subscription to pole vault over your drying up moat over the course of a weekend. |
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| ▲ | TeMPOraL 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | LLMs by their very nature subsume software products (and services). LLM vendors are actually quite restrained - the models are close to being able to destroy the entire software industry (and I believe they will, eventually). However, at the moment, it's much more convenient to let the status quo continue, and just milk the entire industry via paid APIs and subscriptions, rather than compete with it across the board. Not to mention, there are laws that would kick in at this point. | | |
| ▲ | Davidzheng 18 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | I think the function of a company is to address limitations of a single human by distributing a task across different people and stabilized with some bureaucracy. However, if we can train models past human scales at corporation scale, there might be large efficiency gains when the entire corporation can function literally as a single organism instead of coordinating separate entities. I think the impact of this phase of AI will be really big. | |
| ▲ | xlbuttplug2 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Surely they've reserved the best models for themselves and have people looking into how to optimally harness untapped potential from LLMs? Edit: I guess the competition between them keeps them honest and forces them to release their best models so they don't lose face. |
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| ▲ | dcchambers 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Best defense is to basically stay small/niche enough that the big guys don't think your work is worth consuming/competing with directly. There will always be a market for dedicated tools that do really specific things REALLY well. |
