Remember the early days of Uber and Lyft, when rides were dirt cheap because the companies were operating at a loss in order to capture the minds/wallets of the masses?
The rug pull in the AI/LLM world when the companies adjust pricing to actually make a profit is going to be spectacular. Especially when you consider the numbers of people / orgs that are addicted to or dependent on such technology.
@wdormann
This has been the dominant tech/startup model for decades. It’s incredible that people haven’t cottoned on this yet.
Companies and people don't care. They're looking at replacing people, especially at the junior level, but the junior simpler jobs are how people train up to be architects or experts. We're no longer giving them that chance.
The cost doesn't matter, as long as it's cheaper than a full time junior person being replaced.
@hittitezombie @crispius @wdormann @witchescauldron when I first started in this industry, decades ago now, I apologized for taking up so much of a senior engineer's time helping me solve a problem. His response has stuck with me ever since: "my most important deliverable to the company is more senior engineers".
The short sighted murdering of that pipeline in many modern orgs is *shocking* to me
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