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skydhashyesterday at 2:22 PM1 replyview on HN

> Why do you think this is a problem?

Because it cannot do it?

Every investment has a date where there should be a return on that investment. If there’s no date, it’s a donation of resources (or a waste depending on perspective).

You may be OK with continuing to try to make things work. But others aren’t and have decided to invest their finite resources somewhere else.


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aspenmartinyesterday at 2:31 PM

> Because it cannot do it?

Ah ok so you didn't really read my comment, what is your counter argument? Models are just fundamentally incapable of understanding business context? They are demonstrably already capable of this to a large extent.

> Every investment has a date where there should be a return on that investment. If there’s no date, it’s a donation of resources (or a waste depending on perspective).

what are you implying here? This convo now turns into the "AI is not profitable and this is a house of cards" theme? That's ok, we can ignore every other business model like say Uber running at a loss to capture what is ultimately an absolutely insane TAM. Little ol' Uber accumuluated ~33B in losses over 14 years, and you're right they tanked and collapsed like a dying star...oh wait...hmm interesting I just looked at their market cap and it's 141 Billion.

> You may be OK with continuing to try to make things work. But others aren’t and have decided to invest their finite resources somewhere else.

I truly love that. If you want to code as a hobby that is fantastic, and we can go ahead and see in 2 years how your comment ages.

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