Comment by immibis
1 month ago
A LLM wrapper adds near-zero value. If I type some text into a "convert to Donald Trump style" tool, it produces the exact same output as typing it into ChatGPT following "Convert this text to Donald Trump style:" because that's what the tool actually does. Implementing ChatGPT is 99.999% of the value creation. Prepending the prompt is 0.001%. The surprising fact is that the market assigns a non-zero value to the tool anyway.
Startups that use cloud servers still write the software that goes on those servers, which is 90% of the value creation.
I also think the proliferation of "GPTs" really took the wind out of thousands of these "NextJS Frontend + Custom System Context + LLM" wrapper apps as well.
https://chatgpt.com/gpts
That’s not what I see from the companies I work with (cloud consulting).
Almost all of them are using LLMs along with “tools” and RAG.