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by nradov 14 days ago
Regardless of profitability there will always be multiple good LLM vendors as well as open-source alternatives (slightly worse but still pretty good). If one vendor fails then it's easy to switch your core workflow to a competitor.
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On an individual basis for coding? Sure. If you’re a significant business with agents that do more nuanced work, which is the only kind of customer that will let any of these companies pay back those trillions of dollars as quickly as they need to to stay alive, these are not fungible services.