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A bunch of Consultants or agile trainers will come and change how thier teams work.
The goal is to work in a better way but critically an industry standard way so your employees are more fungible.
The product is valuable because everyone else is using it, a moat like social network network effect…
I do still think there is mileage in this post AI, particularly as it changes howbuisness works, people will want to buy that change packaged. But maybe the frontier labs and thier forming walled gardens are the natural home of that package.
Generating text humans like, empathising and cold reading the user’s intent, observing something interesting if second hand ally the human experience - none of these can be verified without a human. So they rely on larger pre/train and a larger human curated post train corpus. These are not scalable in the same way.
If the ROI was there, they could do more. Startups like sesame and previously pi showed that a more personable agent than today’s frontier models can be achieved with a sane budget. That’s another unverifiable objective.
But I do think this technology that explains the jagged leaps forward this year does not apply to this problem.
Project managers and real executives manage a budget in dollars, not man days or tokens. Historically businesses are pretty reluctant to devolve that. I don’t think a big corp vibe coder is going to be able to pull out a company credit card and buy a marketing campaign any time soon.
So you have those other 2, managing product market fit and availability.
One person startup you do everything I guess
However, I imagine someone will fill a server rack with cheap old macs and offer and safari mcp as a service…
OpenAI and anthropic tokens are down 30% in the start of the month but flat on the week, possibly meaning that market front ran this sell off, possibly not.
Everyone is worried about AI for good reason but if he's the promise is true then we see significant productivity improvements.
The pie might be shared out worse than even today but there would be more pie.
We are in a period of deglobalisation, but also a period of reorganisation. Today's supply chain is less efficient than 2021s. We are materially poorer as a result. But after the dust settles, it will be a lot more efficient than it is right now. Even with no ai.
Potentially we are in a dip. Stuff for worse, but it can get better.
Joe has a 300k house with 100k equity and 200k mortgage. He has 100k in stocks in a 401k. Net worth negative 100k.
Pete has $300 in his cheques account, and isn't eligible for loans or mortgage. Net worth positive $300
Obviously Joe is richer than Pete though.
I do think a lot of what you are rejecting (automatic updates, centralised package signing, permissions) are solutions to security problems that you might actually have.
This is a safety problem that needs solving. Just detecting when they sleep isn't a good solution.
I'd note that startup money of the is much harder to get in London, so a US startup might be able to force the idea from experiment to profitability.
Case law is important in the UK because laws are vaguely written and thier specifics are established in court.
By going after entities that can't comply and don't have a big legal budget like 4chan, they can go through the motions and establish that ISP level blocks against non complying companies are okay.
They can then hit progressively more difficult targets until they get to X and tiktok.
But can this be done with baby skin and lung safe chemicals at a reasonable temperature?
Point being humanoid designs for robots that manipulate objects designed for humans are an artificially hard problem we have decided to fail at solving.
You can prompt with a normal size 8 dress and "kim jungle un wearing a dress" and it will show you something that doesn't help you understand whether that dress would fit or not. You can ask for a tube dress and it will usually give him a big bust to hold it up. It's not useful for the purpose of visualing fit.
It will definitely be used for such just like image models already are for cheap tenu clothes, and our onions shopping experience will get worse.
Maybe this needs purpose built models like vibe-net or maybe you cab train a general purpose model to do it, but if they were spending the effort necessary to do so they'd be calling it out.
So, you have 2 kids who are equally bright, and you tell one "you don't have to do these assignments but there is a test at the end" and the other "you have an 80% chance if failing if you don't do these assignments. Analyse each assignments and feedback for shiboleths like the way they ask you to structure your introduction and optimize for demonstrating you know these shiboleths over everything else"
University is a wonderful petri dish for growing into who you want to be. You have access to expertise and resources abs a certain kind of institutional credibility. Few students actually use these fully and the ones who do were told to. You need some idea who you want to be and why, and this is developed in you by other people. Children don't just know stuff.
I think these are positive changes if and only if we accompany them with systematic study skills and self management courses and bridge this gap.
What remains is mostly logistics - this company runs farms and abertoires, food import and packaging and a network of warehouses and stores. The drop in cots product is SAP.
The whitelabel ecomerce site is kind of an insurance/ legacy thing while ocado is thier shopfront. Presumably they are prioritising what matters, the logistics, and might sunset this part of thier offer anyway.
Like, I thought the whole point with VC was to find ideas that could 100x your return, which by definition would be horizontal markets.
I'm curious how centralized the operation is. Individually it's a bunch of hustlers running their own little personal branding operation, but if each of them is in a masterclass, and the masterclass leaders are in a masterclass, has a small group of mega-influencers formed, and who are they?
I thought they were set up a some kind of non profit and thier mandate was to pursue other goals not profit. That was what caused the issue with the altman firing previously right?
It's interesting how UK stories are reported.
By this definition I was not living paycheque to paycheque, but my situation was definitely not good, compared up someone who made better money but spent it each month on nonessential.
I think I'm reading that the product sets a problem and talks the pupil through it. The pupil works on paper and the product recognises and grades thier written answer. It then uses an expert system to figure out the best concept to cover next, going back to explore the missing knowledge making the current problem impossible or advancing to the next step?
As an augmentation of teachers or a form of homework, this sounds really useful, but I'm not a teacher just a parent so who knows.
Anyway good luck!