Like with any trend, with any development of technology, there is always going to be something being saturated, overused, and possibly distorted along the way. So, in many ways, what is happening right now makes a lot of sense.
Everyone is building an AI wrapper.
What is that? You might ask.
The long story short is this: an app that does very little, and unloads "the selling point" to an LLM. From workout apps, dieting apps, and yes, even more complex ideas like a CRM, it seems like a lot of entrepreneurs, and I use that word charitably, are working on the next million-dollar idea, recycling the same cheeseburger.
This is not to say there isn't a place for LLMs inside apps. Of course there is. I would be a hypocrite if I didn't admit to using them myself. But the way they are used makes all the difference.
An app that recommends what you should prepare if you take pictures of your open refrigerator, by simply offloading all the logic to an API subscription, can barely be called an app, to be fair. A user could simply snap a picture themselves and ask ChatGPT directly for a cooking idea.
But of course, you can't sell prompts.
Or at least I don't know of someone so ballsy to try.
I'm only thinking about this because plenty of social media feeds are being bombarded by ads that promise to teach you how to use AI to bring your million-dollar idea to production.
It seems rather obvious that their business model is to sell you the course, and that they themselves have not succeeded at taking much to production. But then again, this sort of quirk is a common tactic in the online ecosystem.
That said, I wonder if there's an outlier somewhere.
Someone who, maybe through sheer luck, managed to sell an AI wrapper to the masses, and now calls himself a business guru.
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