I was wrong, GPT4 didn't kill our startup. It made it viable

More than a year ago (when MS announced that it will introduce copilot in all of its office suite) I posted here. I said (with total conviction) that our bootstrapped, two-man NLP/AI company is now doomed and GPT4 will basically solve everything we ever wanted to.

Crowdprisma is a free-text survey analysis tool that aims to understand survey responses, extract topics from it and accurately assign each response to them. Then allow the user to cross-check these topics against non-text (ie qualitative) variables, through a unified dashboard. To be brutally honest, before GPT our text engine sucked, even though we worked a ton on it (the fact that we were two senior ML engineers with 10+ years experience between us, didn't make a difference).

It took us a whole year to realise that GPT4 cannot do this easily and in a single go, and another 7 months to completely rewrite our pipeline and make it water tight (yepp, we are probably not silicon valley fast).

Now it's better than it could have ever been pre-gpt4 and is super valuable for our customers.

So maybe it is truly the case that AI will not (just) kill old jobs and companies but make some of them adopt, then adapt & survive (or at least give them a second chance). Surely we are biased but for us, it certainly feels that way.