Benedict Evans
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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Um but um clearly there's some you know, there's a growing up company, creation company, creation company building thing going on there.
And and at the same time, if the chap if the chat b if there is no applications, if the model just does the whole fucking thing, then why do you need the applications?
the prompt is the thing and there won't be anything else.
Yes.
then all those hundreds of and thousands of SaaS companies wrong.
Um but clearly that's I mean I it's it's almost not worth even arguing that.
It seems so self uh self evident that that's not how it's gonna work.
Um
But then it's just a funny thing, you know, this phrase, a thin GPT wrapper, is to me the only thin thin GPT rappers are what you get when you go to chatgpt.com and Claude dot com and Grok and all these others.
That's a thin wrapper on a model.
Whereas um
You know, name your vertical enterprise SaaS company.
That's not a thin wrapper.
I mean, this a friend of mine is building a company that where the thesis is you do machine translation of COBOL to Java.
People have been doing this for ages apparently.
And the code is terrible because it's machine translation, it's unreadable and can't maintain it and change anything.
And so he's going to use an LM to clean up the new this this this generated Java code.
He's not a thin GPT wrapper.
He's got to know a lot about COBOL and a lot about Java and a lot about banks.
and a lot about digital transformation and Accenture and Deloitte and how that all how all of that stuff would happen and who has COBOL and who wants to change it into Java and why and who's already changed it.
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