Re:Ask HN: What’s the Future of LLM Apps?
by smoldesu on Thursday July 20, 2023 @05:17PM
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I'm betting on the opposite. "Skeleton key" programs will be extremely difficult to develop and require immense amounts of work to build.
On the other hand, making a small purpose-built app is easier than ever now. A couple days ago I made a transcription app using OpenAI's whisper model, and it maybe took me ~5 hours of work, start-to-finish. That's including the GUI. That's a pretty quick time-to-MVP, and has a better shot at disrupting something than a half-baked "everything app" that can't ever hope to compete with heavyweight purpose-built apps.
On the other hand, making a small purpose-built app is easier than ever now. A couple days ago I made a transcription app using OpenAI's whisper model, and it maybe took me ~5 hours of work, start-to-finish. That's including the GUI. That's a pretty quick time-to-MVP, and has a better shot at disrupting something than a half-baked "everything app" that can't ever hope to compete with heavyweight purpose-built apps.