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by altcognito 27 days ago
> AI usage seems to have plateaued overall, except for niche use cases like coding,

I sure hope more people think like this, because it's going to leave a lot of money on the table (for me)

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How? Like if AI usage skyrockets, I am sure the money on the table will be gobbled up by multi billion dollar companies before you, i would assume?

And if they are right then what? You won't get a lot of money?

Seems like a weird mix of inflated ego and lack of business understanding by you on this comment.

Most business is finding the river of money, attaching yourself to it skilfully and sucking a small fraction for yourself.
(I don't quite understand your take?) but overall, companies like cloudflare are basically firing people for the costs associated with AI and layoffs are starting to being questioned with this take.

I don't know what your statement is but if you are an employee, then as your employer is forcing you to tokenmax and forcing you to use slop and creating leaderboards for these token spend which will all end up forcing the company to bleed money afterwards they might even lay off people.

If you are an employer then there are still long term issues associated. For example, cloudflare is a company which hasn't been in profit but it has burnt through 5 million dollars per month for AI as it first created an incentive (shrewd even) for employees to use it (for everything) only to please the investors but in the end, its still unclear how profitable all of it is for cloudflare.

Perhaps I have misunderstood you but I really don't understand how its going to leave a lot of money on the table, the only thing I see is a race to the bottom.