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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone successfully pivoted from web dev to A... by dewey on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @12:56PM (#40867800)
> If you have any kind of scale

I think that's the key also in terms of team size, if you don't have a dedicated team to take care of training / running a model then it makes sense to use an existing API and pay for it until you have enough scale.

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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone successfully pivoted from web dev to A... by dontlikeyoueith on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @02:19PM (#40868630)
That is a fair point.

Lots of times building the inefficient thing to prove market value is better than building the scalable thing that doesn't solve anyone's problems.

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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone successfully pivoted from web dev to A... by reaperman on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @01:04PM (#40867889)
Gemma2 might be good enough for a drop-in option as well. The benefit for those who built on ChatGPT API is that as more open weight models get released, they can silently migrate their API usage to self-hosted models … ChatGPT allowed them to prove product-market fit early!
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