there's literally no other provider with a good free tier?

(other than aistudio which i wouldn't use even if i were forced to, laggy af!)

this is downvoted but anyone who has used gemini seriously would know that it comes nowhere close to chatgpt or claude.

how? i trusted google and youtube and it works out pretty fine for me. same with any other service that has a free ad supported tier.

For many people, that's a risk they're willing to take for free stuff.

People are missing another point - API's are never going to show ads. So even in the worst case where every competitor is showing ads, you could get ad free experience by paying a metered billing rate. Which is not so big a deal?

its a trust thing because the market they operate in is tight - no reason to quickly move to the next option.

i personally would never touch chatgpt if i knew the answers were biased for certain companies.

how will lockin happen? just use claude or something

How do I transfer 3 years of memories over to Claude? Users really like the personalization they've gotten with ChatGPT. It knows about my pets and their names. I gotta teach all of that stuff to Claude or whomever again? sigh. I'll just stick with ChatGPT.

...is what OpenAI is betting on.

you can already export everything in chatgpt and if your competitors really wanted you, they would provide a way to import it.

You are wrong. Cars have made it possible for people to commute way more easily than the alternative where cars don’t exist.

Cars allowed people to live far away which allows for lower housing cost therefore decreased overall cost of living.

Before posting such a daring response, I suggest you use your favourite search engine and read up on the following topics: Red Queen Race, Jevons Paradox, Induced Demand, Technology Treadmill.

Monolith looking like a good now?

Of all takes, I find this most honest and believable. Not many would want a disruption of their stable life

What do you classify as new? Every problem that we solve as developers is a very small deviation from already existing problems. Maybe that’s the point of llms?

How many developers do you think are solving truly novel problems? Most like me are CRUD bunnies.

And these developers do not write the majority of their codebase, they use tons of libraries and only write the glue code.

If your problem is a very small deviation from an existing problem, you should be able to take an existing open-source solution and make a very small modification to adapt it to your use case. No need for “vibe-coding” a lower-quality implementation from scratch.

Yeah, it kind of strikes me how a lot of the LLM use cases would actually be better served by existing techniques, like more/better libraries. And if that's not possible, it'd be way better to find the closest match, fork it, and make minimal modifications. At least then you have the benefit of an upstream.

But, sort of like cryptocurrency, the LLM people aren't so much trying to solve actual problems, but rather find an application of their existing technology. Sort of like the proverbial saying: when you're selling hammers, you want convince everyone that their problem as a nail.