I could spend $1000/day with Fable and it would be worth it. It has much deeper systems thinking, enabling me to trust it to follow my instructions and not fuck things up.
1. That confidence and quality is worth the price.
2. We're accelerating at lightning speed now. If you don't spend, someone else will and they'll eat your cake.
We're nearing the point where you could spin up an entire YC startup in a day. That changes the economics of everything.
I hear this all the time lately. Things like AI X or LLM Y can create a fully working company like "BigCorp XYZ" in N days/hours etc.
But is speed of creation really the golden goose here? A few skilled and motivated individuals could also do (and have been doing) that.
Sure, maybe they take a few months instead of days or weeks, but AFAIK, having a product is just a tiny bit of the battle, finding customers, product market fit, and actually growing it is where the gold is so I'd argue that you'd be better off building the product with a $100 day LLM and spend the other $900 on marketing.
AI won't automatically make everybody business gurus and every LLM generated company a unicorn.
Maybe YC could just give Fable 2 or 3 the funding directly. Sounds like the only thing left will be market control. The only winners being hardware gatekeepers and the investors in them.
Accelerating how much slop you can output? A better model will still produce slop for your feature factory that pumps out software which nobody is interested in buying.
I'm neither an old man, nor am I grumpy at the new tools. I use AI daily, I'm just not deluded into thinking AI is more capable than it is, or myself for that matter.
1. That confidence and quality is worth the price.
2. We're accelerating at lightning speed now. If you don't spend, someone else will and they'll eat your cake.
We're nearing the point where you could spin up an entire YC startup in a day. That changes the economics of everything.