The dumbest part of this is that if it works, if an LLM really is the ur-machine from which all other machines may be trivially derived with almost no work, then all the “AI startup” people are totally screwed too. It’s a race to the bottom that starts *at* the bottom.
Just logically, the only possible winners in a world where everything is a trivial wrapper around ChatGPT or Claude are OpenAI and Anthropic. If you’re starting an “AI startup” rather than working for one of them, you’re the dumb money!
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