Trillion Game Episode 8 Discussion

Gaku's been crunching all night that he hadn't had time to shave.
Haru's initial test of the "AI" seemed mean spirited but there will be users asking those sorts of questions eventually and there's the fact Rinrin believed it was a real customer. She's V-Tubing all day and on campus to create the illusion of AI while there's still time to for Gaku to program a real one.
They did have some sales, but now they have to find their market rather than sell everything. It's flowers, and that it's something fans give to idols sparks another scheme for Haru.
Not the first time a character voiced by Ootsuka Takeo did the otagei at an idol group's live. Perfectly cast lol
To take a foothold in this market, he catches the attention of an idol superfan with a lot of influence on social media, if he buys flowers for his Oshi through their "AI" then others will follow suit.
Haru has sets a new improbable goal for the company at their meeting the the florist (Rinrin got Turing tested). But being able to be an idol Otaku one moment and a host the next, Haru knows where the biggest market for flowers is.
Gaku with the Kiryu fit lol

The boys are going to Kabukicho. Not having a single Yakuza reference would have been a missed opportunity, so we got Kiryu Gaku lmao

I....I don't understand. Why couldn't they create the program in the first place if, according to Haru's crazy plan, they could quickly create it when needed?

@hoshimachinova I still remember when Yakuza was just a fresh new game on PS2 lmao.

@RobertBobert

You're talking about thousands or more of lines of code and they don't know if there's a market for their product.

Once they know which products sells, the resulting program is more fine-tuned compared with creating that program without first determining if there's a demand for such product.

@patkarunungan Give me an example of at least one point of their plan that would not have worked if they had initially had an excellent program instead of Rinrin's advice?

@RobertBobert

Their website was initially selling flowers plus a bunch of other stuff, let's call them flowers then X, Y and Z.

And let's suppose for discussion's sake that writing the AI program for flowers plus X, Y, and Z takes 4000 lines of code.

Without knowing that flowers is profitable and not X, Y, and Z, Gaku would have wasted writing 3000 lines of code when 1000 lines would do. By only writing the needed 1000 lines, any additional lines of code Gaku writes is fine-tuning the AI for selling flowers.

In addition, Rinrin made an excellent point of them not having to throw money to have the products on hand before trying to sell.

They didn't initially know which products would sell. Once they know that only flowers would sell, it's money well spent in buying flowers from others then reselling them.

In other words, they profit off arbitrage.


Theoretically, what you are proposing might work but at the cost of wasted time and money.

@patkarunungan What prevented them from first creating a general advisor program, and then simply repurposing it for flowers? Again, Gaku is a genius programmer and Haru implies that they can easily work on this.

@RobertBobert We may agree to disagree here.

Like I said, it's wasted effort even if Gaku could.

Plus, the point of the episode from my POV is testing which products are profitable and only investing time, effort, and money on those profitable products.

Besides, this show wouldn't be as entertaining as it is without Haru scheming on what looks like shenanigans.