The messianic fervor AI proponents have been spewing these past few months are blinding even people we’d deem reasonable in the past.
People are now in the phase of “if there’s no AI we’ll die” of their products so we should expect it will get much worse before it gets better. I’m now mostly turned off whenever I see a company saying they’re adding “more AI” to their products as that usually means the experience is about to get worse.
Also, imo, a lot of companies greatly underestimate the real runtime cost of AI.
You can’t just throw AI into your existing product and hope that it will fly. Even the most impressive implementations will hit the hard wall of money. Adding AI to an existing product is far from free and you’ll probably need to upgrade your Pricing pages if you add AI to your core offer.
Heck, even OpenAI is currently having a hard time making ChatGPT+ profitable even though they are pricing it at $25 a month. So imagine all those companies hoping they could easily add "ChatGPT" to their $9.99/m business.
I think there is a reason we still don’t see Siri or Alexa powered by GPT while everyone is hoping it’ll happen : Siri & Alexa have always been designed to be cheap and they still dont know how they will sell you the $30/month Alexa Prime.
While I don’t think it’s problematic for OpenAI as they have infinite money to scale but the Jetbrains solution is so behind copilot I don’t even understand why they bothered pushing it.
> OpenAI is currently having a hard time making ChatGPT+ profitable
If they made a profit right now, all investors would hit the ceiling and tell them to stop doing such insane things. In the current stage they're supposed to grow and take over the market (and build a "platform"), not make profits...
People are now in the phase of “if there’s no AI we’ll die” of their products so we should expect it will get much worse before it gets better. I’m now mostly turned off whenever I see a company saying they’re adding “more AI” to their products as that usually means the experience is about to get worse.