Ask HN: OpenAI does have a moat. Why do people think it doesn't?

Re:Ask HN: OpenAI does have a moat. Why do people think it d... by endisneigh on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @11:26AM (#36419759)

Copilot is good, but code completion has been a thing since the 90s, and even earlier. Fundamentally it's iterative.

I mean enabling use cases that simply were not possible before. For example LLMs themselves are groundbreaking, but I haven't seen anything enabled by them that's also groundbreaking.

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Re:Ask HN: OpenAI does have a moat. Why do people think it d... by Our_Benefactors on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @11:52AM (#36420141)

Copilot is so much more than code completion. Have you used it?

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Re:Ask HN: OpenAI does have a moat. Why do people think it d... by herval on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @12:18PM (#36420491)

any technology is iterative. There's no such thing as "completely new".

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Re:Ask HN: OpenAI does have a moat. Why do people think it d... by tredre3 on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @01:21PM (#36421494)

Copilot autocompletes comments too, which I've never seen in 30 years of experience. So that's a use case that was simply not possible before.

eg I just type // above a block of code and the little guy will read my mind with a full comment.

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Re:Ask HN: OpenAI does have a moat. Why do people think it d... by rvz on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @01:50PM (#36421913)

Exactly. It's more evolutionary rather than revolutionary.

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