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Our sales teams heres the "we'll just build it internally" or "we can just throw it into an LLM" all of the time.

Yes, certain parts of our product are indeed just lightweight wrappers around an LLM. What you're paying for is the 99% of the other stuff that's (1) either extremely hard to do (and probably non-obvious) (2) an endless supply of "routine" work that still takes time (3) an SLA/support that's more than "random dev isn't on PTO"

>>SkyPun+(OP)
> "we'll just build it internally" or "we can just throw it into an LLM" all of the time.

Is that a bluff used to negotiate the price?

>>robofa+Sl
If it is a credible bluff, does it work?

>>SkyPun+(OP)
> (3) an SLA/support that's more than "random dev isn't on PTO"

Why do they have an internal engineering org at all if they can't manage the most basic maintenance of a software product?

>>pseudo+Zz
No because it is never a credible bluff. You would not be having the conversation if it was.

In fact having sold stuff If a lead says this, it is a huge red flag for me that I probably don't want to do business with them because they are probably a "vampire customer"

>>pseudo+Zz
LLMs can write surprisingly decent code a few hundred lines at a time but they absolutely can't write coherent hundred thousand line or bigger programs.