I question the theory of r&d ->bankruptcy, most don’t go under. Xerox not being Microsoft had nothing to do with r&d cost.

r&d is the cost of not falling behind. For smaller company a good work environment and motivated staff is important. The people do offhour research because they like stuff they are doing. They don’t do it for the company, but they bring the skills and knowledge back to work.

But everyone just remembers that one awful teacher and not the dozens of normal teachers doing a normal amount of work, because not every moment in live is world defining.

I, too, get the feeling, that the RoI is not there with LLM. Being able to include “site:” or “ext:” are more efficient.

I just made another test: Kaba, just googling kaba gets you a german wiki article, explaining it means KAkao + BAnana

chatgpt: It is the combination of the first syllables of KAkao and BEutel - Beutel is bag in german.

It just made up the important part. On top of chatgpt says Kaba is a famous product in many countries, I am sure it is not.