Very reasonable take. The fact that this is being downvoted really shows how poor HN's collective critical thinking has become. Silicon Valley is cannibalizing itself and it's pretty funny to watch from the outside with a clear head.
Very reasonable take. The fact that this is being downvoted really shows how poor HN's collective critical thinking has become. Silicon Valley is cannibalizing itself and it's pretty funny to watch from the outside with a clear head.
I think it's like the California gold rush. Anybody and their brother can go out and dig, but the real money is in selling the shovels.
More like they’re leasing away deeply discounted steam shovels at below market rates and somehow expecting to turn a profit doing so.
The real profits are the companies selling them chips, fiber, and power.
A handful of start ups will find genuine use cases for these models with real business demand. It just won’t be another AI travel agent chat bot.
Impossible to say right now... consider just the idea of reactive agentic workflows: test fails, agent is instantly triggered and response is passed off for review, or whatever, something along those lines.
Thats staying power, suddenly that lease isnt a lease, its an ongoing cost for as long as that system exists. its gas.
But the companies selling them chips are also their shareholders, so those are on the hook as well.
If it's below market rates, the people using the shovels are the ones making a profit.
Shovels still have a defined cost, even if there's absolutely no gold there for one to find.
I don't think this is the case, because the AI companies are all just shuffling around the same 300 million or trillion to each other.