Comment by senko
20 hours ago
> yet another wrapper around LLM APIs
Patio11 famously built, ran for a number of years (profitably) and then sold a "wrapper for a random number generator" (bingocardcreator.com)
Value is in the eye of the beholder, and only tangentially related to the technical complexity or ingenuity.
I'm not arguing in favor of technical complexity or ingenuity.
My point is that the perceived value of a service or product is directly related to its competitive advantage, product differentiation, and so on. When the service is made from the same cookie cutter template as all the others, the only value that can be extracted from it is by duping customers who don't know better.
There are entire industries flooded with cheap and poorly made crap from companies that change brand names every week. Code generation tools have now enabled such grifters to profit from software as well.
> When the service is made from the same cookie cutter template as all the others,
You're conflating "underlying tech" and "cookie cutter template".
The fact that something uses the same LLM under the hood as some other product doesn't mean it's not differentiated.
It's people configuring WordPress with various themes from Envato at jacked-up prices in a trench coat /s
I'm only half joking.