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I get it. I was a huge skeptic 2 years ago, and I think that's part of the reason my company asked me to join our emerging AI team as an Individual Contributor. I didn't understand why I'd want a shitty junior dev doing a bad job... but the tools, the methodology, the gains.. they all started to get better.
I'm now leading that team, and we're not only doing accelerated development, we're building products with AI that have received positive feedback from our internal customers, with a launch of our first external AI product going live in Q1.
What are your plans when these AI companies collapse, or start charging the actual costs of these services?
Because right now, you're paying just a tiny fraction of what it costs to run these services. And these AI companies are burning billions to try to find a way to make this all profitable.
These tools are mostly determistic applications following the same methodology we've used for years in the industry. The development cycle has been accelerated. We are decoupled from specific LLM providers by using LiteLLM, prompt management, and abstractions in our application.
Losing a hosted LLM provider means we prox6 litellm to something out without changing contracts with our applications.
What are your plans when the Internet stops existing or is made illegal (same result)? Or when....
They are not going away. LLMs are already ubiquitous, there is not only one company.
Ok, so you're completely delusional.
The current business model is unsustainable. For LLMs to be profitable, they will have to become many times more expensive.
What are you even trying to say? You have no idea what these products are, but you think they are going to fail?
Our company does market research and test pilots with customers, we aren't just devs operating in a bubble pushing AI.
We are listening and responding to customer needs and investing in areas that drive revenue using this technology sparingly.
I don't know what your products are. I'm speaking specifically about LLMs and LLMs only.
Seriously research the cost of LLM services and how companies like Anthropic and OpenAI are burning VC cash at an insane clip.
Get back to us when you actually launch and maintain a product for a few months then. Because you don't have anything in production then.
We use a layered architecture following best practices and have guardrails, observability and evaluations of the AI processes. We have pilot programs and internal SMEs doing thorough testing before launch. It's modeled after the internal programs we've had success with.
We are doing this very responsibly, and deliver a product our customers are asking for, with the tools to help calibrate minor things based on analytics.
We take data governance and security compliance seriously.
If you have all this infrastructure in place, similar internal programs and so on, why don't you just adjust an internal program that you already have? What value does the AI actually offer?
Accelerated delivery. We use it for intelligent verifiable code generation. It's the same work the senior dev was going to complete anyway, but now they cut out a lot of mundane time intensive parts.
We still have design discussions that drice the backlog the developer works off with their AI.
We have not let loose the SaaS agents that blindly pull from the backlog and open PRs, but we are exploring it carefully exploring with older projects that only require maintenance.
There are in fact changes these agents can make well.