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Yes there is growing wealth inequality in the world. Because we invented a way to turn capital in to more capital without humans.
Bezos is just the first of many. He also has on average made other people richer than he has pocketed, he doesn't own more than 50% of Amazon, his investors (shareholders, pension funds, the US government) have all done incredibly well out of his vision and enterprise.
I love Prime, I love AWS, I love that I can get rare books over night at a great price. Should he be wealth capped? Should he innovate less as he get's more? Not as long as the primary way he makes money is through computers, that would just be self defeating. As someone who lives in Europe, the tech sector is America's growth engine and has defined the gap between the two economies, we'd love a Jeff Bezos.
Glitch creates Ad Campaigns 10x faster than a human that perform 5 times better. Even if the human uses AI.
We need Engineers who want to tackle hard problems like treating the real world as context for LLMs, understanding markets in a few seconds, and dealing with the complex ML algorithms that underlie digital advertising.
We are a team of 16 and a mix of Startup Hustlers and ex-Google Ads Engineers. We've raised Seed and are doubling our customer base every 6 weeks.
We love Agentic Coders and want people who are building not for today but for what the next model can do. You wont build the app you will build the systems that build the app.
Bonus points if you think Agents can solve design and frontend UI.
Email me @ kingsley @ glitchads.ai
We are definitely on an exponential in term of capabilities of humanoid robots. We are probably only years away from having a robot in the house, in construction of robots. Automating anything that a human can do is best done in a human sized robot.
But.
None of these are actually useful right now. I don't want something with the arm strength of a forklift taking care of my parents or kids. The demand for humanoid robots right now is like lift a fridge from a delivery truck to a house (aka more mobile forklift) or walk through toxic sewage to pull crates out. Super useful but basically just mobile cranes, which is a small market. China seems to be making the mistake of pushing a tech demo as a consumer product (we've all been on those projects...) which can make people hate the tech.
Build something people want, don't mandate what they want. We're like 3-4 generations from amazing, useful robots. I'll be scared when these things are minding a bunch of dogs on stage.
But the west by and large won the war on terror, it broke up all the state sponsored terrorist camps, and built a vast surveillance network capable of spotting people trying to build these devices. Israel was the flashpoint and they built walls and put cameras and AI everywhere and just flat out ignore human rights. It's just really hard to radicalise someone to that extent and not have them show up. Isis was also behind a lot of the attacks and they don't exist anymore. Afghanistan and Pakistan also don't shelter terrorists anymore because they might have kicked the US out but they don't want them back again.
Most of this is terrible from a civil liberties / human rights / sovereignty point of view, but if you wanted to stop suicide bombings it worked.
But I think Open AI is not a slam dunk for Ads. Gemini and AI mode will compete for the same budget, and Google's Ad machine is polished.
I think eventually you will buy Ads for Open AI in Google's marketing platforms, just like most people buy bing ads in Google.
Glitch is building the AI agent for Advertising
Glitch let's Businesses create Ad Campaigns in 5 minutes (Down from 5 days) that perform 5 times better than traditional agencies. Our AI makes high performing ads available to everyone.
We need Engineers who want to tackle hard problems like treating the real world as context for LLMs, understanding markets in a few seconds, and dealing with the complex ML algorithms that underlie digital advertising.
We are a team of 8 and a mix of Startup Hustlers and ex-Google Ads Engineers. We've raised Seed and are doubling our customer base every quarter.
We love python, react, tailwind, OpenAI, Google Cloud, and Claude Code. The ideal candidate is running 10-15 instances of Claude Code at once.
Email me @ kingsley @ glitchads.ai
Step 2: run the tasks in claude code in parallel...
AI has many other profitable uses for Microsoft but specifically using it to compete with Google Search seems like a poison pill.
Search costs nothing to run relative to ad revenue. Microsoft makes each query require 100x the cpu usage because users expect an LLM answer for results.
Microsoft’s share of search goes from 1% to 5%. Their cost go up but their sale of ads increases and they get valuable IP.
Google loses 5% share of market but its costs go up 100x.
Google can no longer finance its other bets like Cloud so effectively.
Microsoft meanwhile has a more compelling cloud offering.
Google starts to lose more ground on Cloud.
Amazon (not an AI company) lose ground to both.
Classic Art of War, if your opponent is strong, attack somewhere they are weak.
The question is loaded and I guess 21% can think it through (or their company already gives them better).
If you do end up making as much as the original industry it's because you are doing MORE than the original industry in which case you now have to question if the original industry didn't deserve to be destroyed.
Everything that can be software, will be software, what needs to happen is that the number of things that are software needs to outnumber the things that exist now. Software will create work for people to do as long as it keeps pushing what we can do as people. People need to adapt to a world with software at the heart, everything else is very dangerous.
Why? I went from having about 10 starred repos to 300, and found loads of useful libraries and tools along the way.
No I won't be a passionate evangelist about spreadsheets, but I could get happily lost in the codebase for Google Docs. People code for 48 hours when lost in the happy delirium of discovering some new problem, that's passion. However it might have nothing to do with their personal investment for the finished product. In fact they likely really enjoy the challenge of fixing something broken more than seeing it run once fixed.
Putting passion on a job spec is really quite unreasonable, but it seems easier than saying single minded to a fault and willing to sacrifice personal health to do a bit more hacking.
This study seems to constantly come out saying teens are using x messenger app. Facebook isn't a messaging system like Snapchat or WhatsApp. It's a repo for social contacts and experiences, which is why it has a symbiotic relationship with messaging apps (people sent texts while Facebook was only on the web! Facebook is losing ground to texts!).
Of the four Twitter and Instagram are the competitors but both lack the walled garden that Facebook offers. Facebook for all it's privacy concerns makes these look like a safe-house.
Instagram treads the role of messaging app and social network best, and is owned by Facebook and is deeply integrated. That doesn't seem like a dead and buried social network.
SF actually has relatively great care for homeless people compared to the majority of the US. Therefore a lot more homeless end up there.
The homeless problem is striking because it's almost entirely artificial. If SF didn't care for it's homeless, and didn't rent control areas to allow affordable housing it would probably be like midtown manhattan. That's boring to a lot of residents and unfortunate for the homeless, but where's the tax money coming from to allow the status quo to continue?
No one seems to be debating the value of social programs, but what's the advantage of the tenderloin? It's been a decaying mess for generations when it could be a profitable, vibrant part of the city which would be beneficial for wealthy and poor alike.
It's a cool animation though and a nice reference to the first book, personally I'd probably add a small toggle for the bugs.
But I had to remove the background to finish the page, it really creeped me out.
However equally bullshit is the idea that you can't write software without a Bachelors in CS. As far as I'm concerned my MSc is a halfway house. It gets you passed HR and let's you talk to people who know these MSc aren't worth anything but only really care if you can make things.