Chatbots went from costing $100K+ and months of development to $100 and a weekend—just in 5 years. Here's how the rise of LLMs, cheap APIs, and simplified tool

Chatbots went from costing $100K+ and months of development to $100 and a weekend—just in 5 years. Here's how the rise of LLMs, cheap APIs, and simplified tooling transformed chatbot creation, why building custom solutions today is usually a bad idea, and what it means for the market going forward.