[bennyelv]

To provide a counterpoint: were companies in the early days of the word wide web that started using the web to enable people do do things online that they couldn’t before not web startups?

All they were doing was using the technology innovations of other companies (browsers, ISPs, etc) applying a thin slice on top that targeted them at a particular problem.

I see the AI/LLM world as much the same. You’ve got some companies building the infrastructure (OpenAI etc) that enables others to layer bits on top to solve human/business problems.

I guess the argument is that “couldn’t the LLM just do the whole thing on its own”, but the reality of that is no.