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by mupuff1234 308 days ago
I'm curious how do these LLM wrapper companies think they'll survive long term - especially coding related wrappers.

I could understand focusing on a niche business use case, but coding is a main focus of the foundation models themselves.

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Labeling them as “wrappers” and “niche business” indicates a strong cognitive bias already. Value can be created on both sides of the equation.
How so? They are wrappers, and it is niche.
I think those wrappers could create some potentially complex workflow around LLM API, with various trees of decisions, integrations, eval, rankers, ratets, etc, and this is their added value.
Wrappers are a bit pejorative and reductive - everything is a wrapper around something else.
If everything is a wrapper around something else, how can the description be a pejorative?