It's always the same story with web scraping product building: On the surface it's very interesting work. There is joy in seeing the fruits of your work automating human hours. There is also pain in seeing race to the bottom in that its very tough to get a recurring client who is always looking to reduce the cost.
One concern I have with this is I don't see the benefit of using a fuzzy blackbox in an area that has largely been solved with traditional tree-based one-shot approaches that doesn't require AI.
Granularity and explicitness is often written off as expensive in this space but throwing a large model at a largely solved problem with existing tools and techniques seems spirit of the times.
Asking this question on a platform pretty much aligned with Sam Altman and expecting real nuanced answer is unrealistic.
Remember they shut down the thread regarding Sam Altman's sister alleging she was molested by him.
Its just incredibly sad to see how society is quick to overlook one's transgressions if it stands to benefit from that individual. Artists, CEOs, politicians, celebrities.
Just one sick world and this blatant disregard for "non-profit" because bunch of men feel they were chosen.
Personally I really don't get this outrage over emulators.
A huge chunk of the population can't afford Nintendo Switch or its expensively priced licenses. They turn to a zero-cost grey-market online. Nintendo wants to turn those people into paying customers?
Somebody who owns a Switch and buys games aren't going to stop paying so who is Nintendo really trying to deny?
How do we decide who gets to listen to a song and who doesn't on the internet where information constantly tries to reach homeostasis by becoming free and widely available? Capital?
It used to be we will take your server down. Now its we'll DDOS your serverless website and leave you a 100k bill.
I'm not sure how sustainable such business model is. When you owned the server, you could unplug it. Now you have no way of knowing if somebody is going to hit your /api a million times per minute
im not sure what the legal liabilities are for offering this type of service but couldn't somebody potentially use this to scrape a highly litigious website and end up bringing heat to browserless's company and its founders I wonder
"we just provide the tool" defence no longer works in court
like there's even a 7 day trial opening this up to anyone with bad intentions
One good thing Lambda provides is contractual guarantee, if you want 100000 code spun up you can put it in writing and hold AWS against it
but then you realize you can achieve the same thing at 98% discount with traditional "monolith" setups with a load balancer soaking up all the requests
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