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0 pointsnumpad01y ago0 comments

but they're not making money and there are plenty substitutes. I bet they have practically zero paid customer retention rate. People say they love it, so what.

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sebzim45001y ago· 3 in thread

>I bet they have practically zero paid customer retention rate

Why do you think that?

I know a few people with a subscription but I don't think I know anyone who has cancelled. Even people who have mainly moved to Claude kept the plus subscription because it's so cheap and o1 is sometimes useful for stuff Claude can't do.

shadowerm1y ago

This is my first weekend with no subscription to a model since the day chatGPT4 came out.

I feel like I got to a point of increasingly diminishing returns from the models. I know what they are good at and what they are not good at so I started avoiding what they are not good at.

It reminds me of Jaron Lanier saying years ago that we have to be on guard to not start acting stupid to make AI seem smarter. I had surely started doing that.

This is quite a nice feeling. I can still learn things the model sucks at. I could feel a creep coming into my head that there was no point in learning something the model wasn't good at.

The models are amazing at reinventing the wheel in React. Mapping this as if it scales to all human activity though is completely delusional.

numpad0OP1y ago

> [people moved kept subscription] because it's so cheap and

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sebzim45001y ago

I'm not sure what your point is? Are you arguing that no company can sustain itself on $20 per month subscriptions? Or just that OpenAI can't?

Or that $20 a month isn't cheap?

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