By skyforbes 
Good Times Don’t Scale
If you’ve been around the block a few times, you’ve already seen this movie before. You know the cliffhanger, the shock scare, the seductive damsel debut, and the dramatic protagonist that saves the world. It feels like yesterday when we had all our friends on MySpace and we were geekin’ out over the glitter HTML backgrounds. We used to let our mouths drop when we saw real photos on Instagram (or “da gram”). We saw Vines get resurrected as TikTok, and just this week, how Instagram has animorphed into its final form. An exact replica of TikTok. That’s why they hire engineers for 200k at Meta. The tiktoxification of the web is slowly being completed.
Every age has its miracle tech, and we are witnessing before our very eyes the marvel that is ChatGPT. You can ask it to order a list of 30 items, and it will index all 35 of them back at you. You can tell it to spit out an Excel sheet, and it will print out a spreadsheet full of asterisks, commas, and squares.
I’m very kidding. These LLMs — or chatgpts, as I call them — are very smart. But for all their brilliance, they’re broke. At best, they can’t even pay rent, and at worst, they are all underwater. And how do we believe they will rise to the challenge? By using the same tricks we’ve all seen before. It might be the…