> The team that made dataroom has stated that they did not use any of papermark’s code and that dataroom was made from scratch with inspiration from existing document sharing softwares, and that this post’s allegations of us stealing code are false. [...]
The screenshots clearly show they copied whole pages verbatim, both design and texts. The founder, Nico Laqua, basically responding with "we didn't copy _code_" and not taking any responsibility says a lot about his and his company's moral code. It might not be enough to get sued. That doesn't make it right.
In most cases, e.g. with regular ML, evals are easy and not doing them results in inferior performance. With LLMs, especially frontier LLMs, this has flipped. Not doing them will likely give you alight performance and at the same time proper benchmarks are tricky to implement.
This is a very good point. When I came in, the founder did a lot of evaluation based on a few prompts and with manual evaluation, exactly as described. Showing the results helped me underline the fact that "works for me" (tm) does not match the actual data in many cases.
Doesn't this depend a lot on private vs company usage? There's no way I could spend more than a few hundreds alone, but when you run prompts on 1M entities in some corporate use case, this will incur costs, no matter how cheap the model usage.
That's interesting. Similarly, we found out that for very simple tasks the older Haiku models are interesting as they're cheaper than the latest Haiku models and often perform equally well.
Totally agree with your point. While I can't say specifically, it's a traditional (German) business he's doing vertically integrated with AI. Customer support is really bad in this traditional niche and by leveraging AI on top of doing the support himself 24/7, he was able to make it his competitive edge.
You're right. We did a few use cases and I have to admit that while customer service is easiest to explain, its where I'd also not choose the cheapest model for said reasons.
> The team that made dataroom has stated that they did not use any of papermark’s code and that dataroom was made from scratch with inspiration from existing document sharing softwares, and that this post’s allegations of us stealing code are false. [...]
The screenshots clearly show they copied whole pages verbatim, both design and texts. The founder, Nico Laqua, basically responding with "we didn't copy _code_" and not taking any responsibility says a lot about his and his company's moral code. It might not be enough to get sued. That doesn't make it right.
https://x.com/nico_laqua/status/2070158170937581951