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janalsncm • yesterday at 10:24 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

The standard analogy is selling shovels, not hamburgers.

OpenAI is selling people access to a tool to build things. OP is asking why they don’t just build the things themselves, which I believe is a fair question.


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Havoc • yesterday at 11:12 PM

The bet here is that it's not selling shovels but rather magic.

...a dubious proposition except this time there is a small but real chance it may be actual magic