Every AI company knows they're building the wrong thing.

[daojoan@mastodon.social]

Every AI company knows they're building the wrong thing.

And they can't stop.

Because the competitive structure specifically punishes anyone who slows down long enough to build the right thing.

The race is real. The destination is fake.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/everyone-in-ai-is-building-the-wrong-thing-for-the-same-reason/

[raganwald@social.bau-ha.us]

@Daojoan Thank you for this essay. You have put your finger on the "herd behaviour" of SV tech.

Joel Spolsky did NOT say everything you are now saying twenty years ago, not even close. But his "Fire and Motion" essay from 2002 is a complementary read: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/

[kevinflynn@c.im]

@Daojoan

" Find a niche that's too small for the Moloch-captured companies to notice and go so deep into it that by the time they arrive, your product is years ahead in the dimension that matters to those users."

Yes.

[nakdim@mathstodon.xyz]

@Daojoan It's being going on like that for years... I wonder when everything will fall apart because of very very rotten and bad foundation...

I like your ending though. It gives me some hope...