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Comment by sumedh

5 days ago

> AI companies are bad at making software

Isnt Chatgpt one of the most successful product of all time?

> Isnt Chatgpt one of the most successful product of all time?

Lets assume that is true[1], all that says is that OpenAI has the best marketing of all time.

The best products are frequently not the highest-selling.

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[1] Depends on how you are measuring "success". If you're measuring it by revenue as a percentage of all products, it's probably not even in the top-ten.

Depends on what your metric is. If you care about profitability it could turn out to be the least successful product of all time.

something selling a lot doesn't mean it's good. Is McDonald's good food? by some metrics of course it is. But if someone says McDonald's makes bad food, I know what they mean

By software they mean "application". Obviously chatgpt is software.

  • Chatgpt is an application for the underlying model. Most users dont care about the model they care about Chatgpt the App.