> How hard would it be to build a new Google Search with a small team and an LLM?

yes, an LLM can write you a web crawler.

whose hardware are you going to run it on? what is the bill for that storage and compute going to look like, just to get to a baseline where you can answer a single general-purpose query?

Google famously sells ads to subsidize its search product. how are you going to bootstrap your ad revenue? and how much capital are you going to burn through while you do that?

> How hard would it be to engineer a new Google Drive and Docs suite?

many open-source clones of GDocs / GSuite already exist. many predate the LLM era and were human-written.

can your LLM slop-fork them? certainly.

but those existing clones already have a niche marketshare compared to Google's behemoth. what reason do you have to believe that yours will be any different?

> How hard would it be to create a new phone operating system?

hoo boy this one is the most detached from reality of them all.

for what hardware?

iPhones are famously locked-down, so you're probably going to be running on Android.

you can fork AOSP and call it Diordna if you want. you could even use good ol' search & replace to save some money on tokens doing the rename.

or, do you want to run it on your own custom hardware? head over to Shenzhen with a binder full of ChatGPT printouts showing your hardware design?

and again, how much capital are you going to burn through, in order to have your first "could be sold to a real customer" quality device?