[fragmede]

Opportunity cost. Anthropic's deal is in training Claude and whatever they choose to call their next model, not whatever weird little niche you're going after. I might not go after programming, but, say, a dnd character backstory generator would be a wrapper that's probably not interesting enough for them to build themselves to compete with yours. Or maybe it is, but your DND character backstory generator also doesn't have to use anthropic as the backend, there are others for you to choose from, so it's a bit of a standoff.

[Larrikin]

But is there any reason to use them besides a demo to investors while you actually build the business on llama? Why build a business with a permanent subscription that's the entire core to your business?

[fragmede]

because for this hypothetical niche, Claude is better than llama. now whether or not that's actually true, I don't know, but while it would be nice to sell shovels in a gold rush, not everyone has the privilege of being able to do that. In this metaphor, some people only know how to mine for gold, and pivoting to selling shoves is an entirely different skillset that the miner doesn't posess.