Comment by schopra909

Totally hear you on point a/b!

I think ultimately the folks with the purses won’t care enough about a for it to be taken seriously, even if it’s an engineering bottleneck.

B definitely has scope but still smaller than I’d expect. When I was an intern at yelp, I was migrating us off internal credit card management to Braintree/stripe. No one would have imagined outsourcing that in early 2000s. There’s a long tail of stuff that you can’t sent to a 3rd party; but for most use cases it’ll suffice.

For c, true; but this is expensive for everyone, including the Chinese model companies that are trying to undercut Open Ai / anthropic. In the nth degree, i think the field will bring the cost down to the place where it’s manageable (see the existence of the cheap Chinese models). The real question is the $$ spent on pushing the research forward at scale.