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What are your plans when these AI companies collapse, or start charging the actual costs of these services?
Because right now, you're paying just a tiny fraction of what it costs to run these services. And these AI companies are burning billions to try to find a way to make this all profitable.
These tools are mostly determistic applications following the same methodology we've used for years in the industry. The development cycle has been accelerated. We are decoupled from specific LLM providers by using LiteLLM, prompt management, and abstractions in our application.
Losing a hosted LLM provider means we prox6 litellm to something out without changing contracts with our applications.
What are your plans when the Internet stops existing or is made illegal (same result)? Or when....
They are not going away. LLMs are already ubiquitous, there is not only one company.
Ok, so you're completely delusional.
The current business model is unsustainable. For LLMs to be profitable, they will have to become many times more expensive.
What are you even trying to say? You have no idea what these products are, but you think they are going to fail?
Our company does market research and test pilots with customers, we aren't just devs operating in a bubble pushing AI.
We are listening and responding to customer needs and investing in areas that drive revenue using this technology sparingly.