As AI takes over first drafts of code, science, and creative work, the leverage shifts toward those who can validate discoveries and ship them into the world

Whats funny is that nearly every major desktop app and feature has come out on macOS first and windows has nearly always been an after thought

Starting when?

Windows 1.0, I believe. Xerox PARC invented the WIMP UI paradigm (windows, icons, menus, pointer), Apple commercialised it first, and then Microsoft copied Apple.

additional humor is the open in openai

if we're being serious, they made bets on instagram, whatsapp and now manus and are great 2nd, 3rd and 4th acts even if external.

Instagram and WhatsApp were far from bets. Both were growing exponentially. Both were serious threats to Facebook's money machine.

Facebook used their lucky cash cow money to eliminate the threat, by offering way more than any reasonable market value. Absolutely crazy money. An offer they couldn't resist, especially the investors.

No bet, just an ice cold rational calculation. Anyone wealthy and crazy enough could have done the same. No skills needed, no risks involved. It's like betting tomorrow will be another day.

You're not wrong, but also, it's a bit of hindsight bias: how many sure thing acquisitions whither?

They don’t need to be “sure things”, only threats. Once you buy the threat, whether it continues to thrive or withers is largely immaterial, the threat is gone.

if you just believe the title of that book, you can justify any action against the makers of AI. plot of so many sci-fi to send someone back in time to kill the creator of ai

Whoa, when did they come out with JA3?

wow, the pi version looks... better v. cc?

yeah true, its looks a bit cleaner and more readable

Your take is brutal but spot on

Why? Imagine the frontier labs lobbying for a ban on using "chinese ai" for commercial use in america

something about Bill Gates telling Steve Jobs he didn't steal from him, he stole from their rich neighbour Parc

And they had hundreds of engineers reverse engineer the GUI smh