The people calling AI girlfriends dystopian are the same ones who said dating apps would never work.
technology filling a human gap is not new. the scale of it is.
AI girlfriends on OnlyFans making $43k a month and people are still out here selling courses on how to make money online.
The loneliness economy is the most underestimated market in tech right now and nobody wants to say it out loud.
@xai@ArtificialAnlys@ValsAI tool calling and instruction following are the benchmarks that actually matter for agents in production. grok 4.3 just put itself in a conversation most people weren't having it in yesterday.
DeepSeek cut API prices 90%.
Plugs directly into Claude Code.
US labs charge more every quarter.
Chinese labs charge less every week.
One of these understands developers.
The other understands investors.
Anthropic is worth $1 trillion.
they just banned a 110 person company overnight with zero warning and ignored their support tickets for 36 hours.
enterprise product. consumer support.
@YakuzaDaddy@MiniMax_AI@Kimi_Moonshot@Alibaba_Qwen@OpenAI@claudeai Opus 4.7 burning tokens is the real trade off nobody talks about.
best reasoning on the market but you'll hit limits fast if you're running it through anything serious.
GPT-5.5 for volume. Opus for the tasks that actually need to be right.
the AI business stack that costs less than a gym membership.
Claude: £18/month
Perplexity: Free
Napkin ai: Free
n8n: Free
Gumroad: Free
Fathom: Free
£18/month. there has never been a cheaper point of entry into a real business.
@om_patel5 zero org level controls. no admin override. no ban radius.
any founder running critical workflows through Claude should be asking what their contingency looks like right now.
@vivoplt depends what you're building.
Codex wins on zero setup and parallel tasks in the cloud. Claude Code wins when you need deep codebase reasoning and computer use.
switching for the wrong reasons is just chasing the new thing. switching because your workflow demands it is smart..
what i'm testing next week:
going deeper on one income model instead of covering many.
pick one tool. one play. show the full picture.
if it works i'll share everything.
unpopular opinion:
the people selling £997 AI courses are making money from the course.
not from AI.
the people quietly running AI income streams don't have time to teach you.
think about which group you're learning from.
What Claude couldn't tell me:
which one I'd actually stick with.
that part's still on you.
but the barrier to starting any of these is lower than you think.
which one would you try first?
3/ AI workflow setup for small businesses
built a simple n8n automation for a local business.
saved them 6 hours a week on invoicing.
charged £300 setup. £80/month to maintain.
verdict: best recurring income. hardest to sell.