0→1 is hard.
People will open source you. Thought bois will elegantly pick apart your product choices. Poasters will say nobody will ever use it, but also that it’s a commodity. That you’re the symbol of the top. That you’re cooked cooked cooked.
Until you’re inevitable. Then
Super thoughtful notes on the “dark arts” of pricing from Sarah & Tugce:
- When an application prices work in tokens, it imports the model provider’s cost structure and anchors the product’s value to a unit whose cost keeps falling.
- A token-based price trains customers to
This is one of the reasons that computer use works so much better when sitting behind an async channel like iMessage .. you want it to be able to work at varying time/ambition scales, just like an employee, assistant or friend .. and obviously this is the worst it will ever be
In case you haven't been paying attention, ChatGPT Work (web) now has the following primitives:
- its own browser w/ best-in-class persistent auth
- a 16gb RAM 9 core computer
- plugins to all the apps you use
- 5.6 w/ Codex compaction
🤲 here is your always-on personal agent
