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by 9rx 306 days ago
Stack Overflow wasn't bringing in hundreds of billions in revenue and never could have hoped to. A niche won't cut it.

I mean, should it all come crashing down and once the dust settles there is no doubt room for a niche service to rise from the ashes. Many have predicted exactly that AI will have its own "dark fibre" moment. But the current crop of providers seeking "world domination" won't survive if they can only carve out a SO-style niche.
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tempodox 306 days ago
> Stack Overflow wasn't bringing in hundreds of billions in revenue

Neither do LLMs. Instead, they cost hundreds of billions. Whether those investments can ever be recovered is still an unanswered question.

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9rx 306 days ago
> Neither do LLMs.

Not yet. Of course, if you had read the thread you'd know that LLM businesses are trying to see if they can capture Facebook-scale/beyond user bases in order to serve ads to them at Facebook-scale/beyond.

> Whether those investments can ever be recovered is still an unanswered question.

Yes, that's the question we are discussing. Welcome to many comments ago.

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