Our sales teams heres the "we'll just build it internally" or "we can just throw it into an LLM" all of the time.
Yes, certain parts of our product are indeed just lightweight wrappers around an LLM. What you're paying for is the 99% of the other stuff that's (1) either extremely hard to do (and probably non-obvious) (2) an endless supply of "routine" work that still takes time (3) an SLA/support that's more than "random dev isn't on PTO"
No because it is never a credible bluff. You would not be having the conversation if it was.
In fact having sold stuff If a lead says this, it is a huge red flag for me that I probably don't want to do business with them because they are probably a "vampire customer"
LLMs can write surprisingly decent code a few hundred lines at a time but they absolutely can't write coherent hundred thousand line or bigger programs.
Yes, certain parts of our product are indeed just lightweight wrappers around an LLM. What you're paying for is the 99% of the other stuff that's (1) either extremely hard to do (and probably non-obvious) (2) an endless supply of "routine" work that still takes time (3) an SLA/support that's more than "random dev isn't on PTO"