<story><title>AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products</title><url>https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/ai-companies-are-pivoting-from-creating</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>Companies keep going at it the wrong way. Instead of saying &amp;quot;We have AI, let&amp;#x27;s find products we can make out of AI!&amp;quot; they should be saying, &amp;quot;What products do people want, let&amp;#x27;s use whatever tools we have (including maybe AI) to make them.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;The idea that a company is an AI company should be as ridiculous as a company being a Python company. &amp;quot;We are Python-first, have Python experts, and all of our products are made with Python. Our customers want their apps to have Python in them. We just have to &amp;#x27;productize Python&amp;#x27; and find the right killer app for Python and we&amp;#x27;ll be successful!&amp;quot; Going at it from the wrong direction. Replace Python in that quote with AI, and you probably have something a real company has said in 2024.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cooperx</author><text>Its the same as all the &amp;quot;we are a blockchain company&amp;quot; startups that popped up looking for a problem to solve with their tech rather than the right way round.&lt;p&gt;However, a lot of those got a bunch of investment or made some decent money in the short term.  Very few are still around.  We will see the same pattern here.</text></comment>
<story><title>AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products</title><url>https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/ai-companies-are-pivoting-from-creating</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>Companies keep going at it the wrong way. Instead of saying &amp;quot;We have AI, let&amp;#x27;s find products we can make out of AI!&amp;quot; they should be saying, &amp;quot;What products do people want, let&amp;#x27;s use whatever tools we have (including maybe AI) to make them.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;The idea that a company is an AI company should be as ridiculous as a company being a Python company. &amp;quot;We are Python-first, have Python experts, and all of our products are made with Python. Our customers want their apps to have Python in them. We just have to &amp;#x27;productize Python&amp;#x27; and find the right killer app for Python and we&amp;#x27;ll be successful!&amp;quot; Going at it from the wrong direction. Replace Python in that quote with AI, and you probably have something a real company has said in 2024.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>necroforest</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t entirely disagree with you, but &amp;quot;what products do people want&amp;quot; is overly conservative. Pre-ChatGPT, very few people wanted a (more or less) general purpose chatbot.</text></comment>