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The AI wildfire is coming. it's going to be painful and healthy

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117 points LordAtlas | 3 comments | 07 Dec 25 16:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.411s | source
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devin ◴[07 Dec 25 17:40 UTC] No.46183465[source]▶
> Every promising engineer, designer, or operator is being courted by three, five, ten different AI startups, often chasing the same vertical, whether it’s coding copilots, novel datasets, customer service, legal tech, or marketing automation.

This is flat out wrong.

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throw310822 ◴[07 Dec 25 17:51 UTC] No.46183542[source]▶
I still don't understand what should this "wildfire" burn. My perspective is very limited, but where are the pets.com of AI today? Where are all the small companies with improbable business cases that are getting absurd valuations/ investments because they're in AI? The space seems mostly dominated by huge players that, while burning tons of cash, are still making real progress on something that will have more economic impact than society can actually bear. Who should be wiped out by the wildfire? Anthropic?
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watwut ◴[07 Dec 25 18:07 UTC] No.46183655[source]▶
To be fair, if you look at language learning reddit, there are about 10 ads a day for shovelware of AI powered apps that no one ever needed. They would be those pets.com
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1. throw310822 ◴[07 Dec 25 18:14 UTC] No.46183715[source]▶
Maybe I just didn't notice. Fair. But are these ads from companies that are collecting large capitals, or from small shops that just use the APIs provided by the few big players?
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2. linkjuice4all ◴[07 Dec 25 19:35 UTC] No.46184391[source]▶
Not parent - but I've noticed those same 'start ups' and they just seem to be today's hustle-bro crypto/drop-ship/mobile-app/ceo-with-no-employees/self-help-book/low-effort grift (bullshit).

I'm sure some of them have managed to shake some change out of the VCs but these wanna-be shovel sellers are just gonna let their domains expire and move on to the next scheme with little overall damage to the economy.

3. watwut ◴[07 Dec 25 20:07 UTC] No.46184659[source]▶
I am pretty sure they use API and dont have millions on training.

I have no idea about their financials. They just annoy me, because they mask their ads as posts/comments. And use ChatGPT to generate those, they are like 2 page long drivel.