I haven't used ChatGPT in over a month. I bounce between Grok, Gemini & Claude. Is ChatGPT even worth it.
Grok can do things the other two can't, like read and fetch websites sometimes where Claude and Gemini cannot.
Gemini is just someone to feed javascript to when you want to save on Claude tokens.
If you ask something like "please make a little website for me and my friends to plan our shopping lists on", I would expect the result to be:
"Here you go: https://shopping-lister.chatgpt.com/"
Unfortunately right now most AI models get into the weeds of asking the user to sign up to netlify or firebase or buying a domain etc - none of which most users are interested in doing.
https://tidal-house-retreat.openai.chatgpt.site/
> Quiet cabins. A view of your own.
For whatever reason most of the sites are Arabic-language prototypes for things like plumbing companies. I'm not sure why - if those are solving a real problem, or whether someone is running a scam, or what.
I got tired of spinning up repos for basic pages, so made my own host last year - https://pageplane.app.
I think the SEO/AEO agencies are using them to seed content for clients.
Vibe coding full circle
And it will be good enough for 90% of use cases.
It is likely better in some ways and worse in others...and few of hte people involved will have the understanding to tell the difference.
They have dots, they had Sora, so many other things that take away attention from just having the best model. There are already a bazillion ways to do this. Sure, the integration's nice, but it's just not needed.
Which means non-technical ChatGPT users are a bit bewildered as to how to pick.
This makes that easy; I suspect normies will fucking love it. My boss will.
Then the app economy gets going within ChatGPT
For example, here's a game where you are a mouse hunting for cheese in higher dimensional mazes: https://manifold-six-axis-escape.nathan338932.chatgpt.site/
Idea came to me while at a concert, was ready to play that same night.
I know that Vercel or something similar is quite close to that, but it's not that well integrated into MCP/Skills.
Wonder what domain they're going to pick next. I feel like many LLM-dependent businesses are going to get sherlocked by OpenAI and Anthropic.
I think programmers make the mistake of thinking generative AI is for us, when it is much more ominously about us.
This actually looks like it has meaningful potential, and given how easily they could train it to connect to a whole bunch of off the shelf APIs running in data centres they control, looks like the next generation of the threat to the tech industry.
This isn’t a side quest: it’s the next real step towards claiming a big chunk of a much broader market.
Cloud AI has been the face-eating leopard of the tech industry for the last three years. It’s just starting to chew.
How long before they tweak it to build intranet apps?
Maybe some of the big firms who have been training ChatGPT to destroy them will now wake up to the need for open weights.
Stuff like this is most of the industry. Why wouldn’t a firm that has so much influence over data centre rollout, RAM and processor prices simply directly start using their code generation tools and data centres to build and run the work product?
The frontier companies are scrutinized heavily for their trillion dollar valuations all without a clear mass-consumer use-case. They're trying stuff.
They are trying to build an ecosystem that can capture the value of AI, whereas LLMs are quickly becoming a commodity.
Where is the moat? How can they convert users?
If you were sitting on a rocket burning cash to not crash you would do that too.
Anthropic is just trying to get to ASI and relying on the blind faith of investors that there will be a return at the end.
What matters is which strategy is more effective for attracting investor capital, because neither can survive without it.
Especially this. OpenAI will note it. OpenAI will throw "Sign in with ChatGPT" there. "Apps" will be built that depend on end users ChatGPT "connections". The app will fundamentally not work without an end-user having a ChatGPT account/subscription and "connected apps".
Having "the best model" will absolutely not support a $1T+ valuation. Owning the activity of 25-50% of internet users (assuming a split between OAI/Anthropic/Google/maybe-Meta), is.
digitaltrees•19h ago
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copperx•32m ago
tripleee•30m ago
That limitation doesn't exist with ChatGPT
hyperionultra•2m ago
reacharavindh•4h ago
They know the API price wars are a race to the bottom with little/no profit margins.
digitaltrees•3h ago
godwinson__4-8•23m ago
I hope you support UBI.
nharada•23m ago
I'm surprised there's not a bigger push into better and useful memory, since that would result in actual lock-in.