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>>tablet+(OP)
It's fascinating how over the past year we have had almost daily posts like this one, yet from the outside everything looks exactly the same, isn't that very weird?

Why haven't we seen an explosion of new start-ups, products or features? Why do we still see hundreds of bug tickets on every issue tracking page? Have you noticed anything different on any changelog?

I invite tptacek, or any other chatbot enthusiast around, to publish project metrics and show some actual numbers.

>>pera+2u1
"Why haven't we seen an explosion of new start-ups, products or features?"

You're posting this question on a forum hosted by YC. Here's a story from March 2024: "YC’s latest W24 batch includes 240 companies. A significant portion of the companies have some AI component, with 63% tagged as “Artificial Intelligence” — a notable increase from 51% in the preceding S23 batch and 29% before that.". https://jamesin.substack.com/p/analysis-of-ycs-latest-w24-ba...

I've not seen the same analysis for more recent batches.

>>simonw+uM1
I don't think that refutes the parent's point. So many AI companies, but where are the companies _using_ the AI?

>>maplan+MY1
It's also interesting how when you look at the websites for the new wave of AI B2B SaaS startups, most of the customers they list are other AI B2B SaaS startups. It makes me wonder how much of the "AI industry" is just startups sending VC money back and forth to each other.

>>ndiddy+a02
Probably a large part of it, honestly. I was just talking with someone the other day about how the whole cloud economy for the past 15 years may have been grossly exaggerated by very loud VC backed companies flooding the internet with blog posts like this one. The big behemoths - hospitals, governments, law offices, manufacturers - those people tend to run a lot of local tech for various reasons. And they’re also the most quiet when it comes to the internet.