Most people are not special, rational, or particularly good. They're tribal primates running social scripts, ranking status, and defending comforting lies over evidence. Intelligence, drive, and outcomes are heavily genetic. Equality of result is a fantasy. The average person will never produce anything of lasting value, and the world is carried by a thin minority they resent.
If you really want to disrupt SaaS, cloning them is the wrong direction. You add distribution, data and network on top of it, and you have a long way to go before you even use the word "disrupt".
The whole narrative of Adobe suite's clone is overblown. I believe the initiative is good for open-source and has the potential to become a viable alternative in the long term with the pace it's going at. 🧵 (1/3)
But the real threat to software like these is not a clone, but a reimagined version of itself with an agent driven interface capturing the creative workflows end to end which Adobe hasn't been able to capitalise yet. 🧵 (2/3)
We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so.
Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training.
You can read the full post here: https://t.co/OGyPb7yaYt
Either you find a way to ship unreviewed code with confidence or you get replaced by your competitors who have. This of course doesn't apply to critical softwares used in banking/military/hospitals, but all non-critical ones. Companies who truly capitalise on AI will win for sure
Leftism begins as compassion for the poor, but ends as contempt for the prosperous. Rightism begins as respect for the past, but ends as revulsion for the present. Each side grows to loathe the other’s values more than it prizes its own. Politics devours love, and defecates hate.