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Thats technically true. I miss peak dilbert


If you're the best then you'd be thr first regarding of cost since there is nothing to compare to for that performance.


As other have stated, your point is relevant only for the single best performance point. The question is for interior points of the frontier where the tradeoff actually exists. For instance why is GPT 6 Luna (Max)on the frontier rather than GPT 6 Luna (Medium)? It is not because GPT 6 Luna (Max) is the most performant model regardless of cost.


Its obviously impossible now otherwise you could prompt it for an exact message that would convince a specific demographic to buy your product.

I guess its a spectrum and the capability cant even match average sales person who still relate better.


Enterprises are very sticky and they arent even chosing between claude and codex, many are looking at something like Kiro.


Kiro came out after both Claude and codex, so not sure that any enterprise stuck to kiro unless you mean that they stick to aws in general. I'd love to hear about usage of kiro even in vague terms compared to the competitors. Naively thinking, I'd guess it's 1% or less of Claude code.


Is there any upside to vices in general?

Outside of vice taxes being a socially acceptable way to tax the poor.


Latest models have a much better sense of time and token budget, so if you instruct it for a quick answer or to not burn many tokens it will try to respect that


Its a matter of time.

Computers arent actually intuitive at all. Even a mouse and keyboard literally take weeks of practice to learn.

Imagine picking up a new product that will take you weeks of practice to use at basic level. And then you have to learn how to do every little thing in the OS.


Via what interface would people use the agents? Voice to text on a smartphone? That's clunky and slow and only works in quiet areas where you can talk freely. And mouse and keyboard is really not that hard. If anything was going to kill PCs, smartphones & tablets would have done it, but everyone I know still has at least a laptop. Overall I think getting people to trade in the freedom of having their own personalized devices for a remote agent is a much harder sell then you're making it out to be.


Smartphone. Think of people in your life who aren't tech workers. When do they use a computer if they don't use one for work? Almost never and when they do it's for specific tasks like create this document, fill in this form, research this destination, book this trip.

There are a lot of people I can think of who would be happier just describing this task to a dot or some other agent rather than digging out a laptop, booting it up, fighting with Windows update etc etc

For those people this could absolutely replace the need for a computer.


I was already thinking of the people in my life who aren't tech workers. They have at least a laptop because it does exactly what you want, you don't have to talk to it (which again, is clunky and only works in a quiet place, which is why adoption of existing voice to text features is already spotty), it has a sizeable screen (video streaming, photo editing, gaming, lots more things), it doesn't have a subscription fee, and it doesn't have to be jailbroken if what you want to do is deemed harmful or otherwise unsupported by the platform. It's (mostly) free to use as you wish. That's the P in PC, it's yours and people value that.

That's not to say that agents won't be a popular product, but as I see it there's a near 0 chance that they kill PCs.


> Imagine picking up a new product that will take you weeks of practice to use at basic level

This does not work on developers. Their empathy fails them here - because they absolutely would try a new product that takes weeks of practise. They like (or at least tolerate) learning complex+cool new things, thats why they are developers...


I still get anxiety thinking back to picking a gamer tag or email username and not coming up with anything original despite unlimited options.

Its hard to be creative without any constraints.


Never understood that. Until I witnessed exGF sweat bullets trying to do them same. You're not alone.

Group of friends I grew up with would challenge each other to say nonsense or make random lyrics to songs. NO clue it would actually turn into a creativity skill. Give it a try.

'Hatch free tent by red barn stunt over the objective'


They have a first mover advantage on autonomous AI employee space. So big enterprises will all default to them given all their competitors will be "startups" uncertain to be around long term.


Big enterprises have heard of ChatGPT and Claude, not Devin.


I am not sure what is devin's value proposition, but one can build lots of enterprise stuff into coding harness: integration with various internal doc, auth, db services, some enterprise jiras, meeting software, security/privacy certifications, limits/budget management, etc/etc/etc


Your counter is that death is a better motivator as well as being a desperate parent?

Well, main generational challenge is procrastination with too many unlroductive time sinks available.


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