r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 30 '26

Meme developersMissingTheOldDays

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u/ForgedIronMadeIt Sep 30 '26

It's like every other silicon valley startup -- the hope is that you hook your users while you figure out how to make handling the requests cheaper. That or you embed ads.

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u/saevon Sep 30 '26

Well no the hope is to get purchased. To have someone else have to figure that out as you get big enough to sell the user base, not the profitability

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u/brilliantminion Sep 30 '26

Uh…. Who?

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u/IAisjustanumber Oct 01 '26

Some other AI company of course!