@GavinSBaker@eglyman What’s interesting is this isn’t just growth, it’s a compounding feedback loop where AI spend reinforces itself. In practice, early adopters gain efficiency → reinvest → widen the gap, turning what looks like adoption into a structural divergence.
Since 2023, the top quartile of AI spenders on @tryramp have more than doubled their revenue. Bottom quartile? Flat
A roofing company in Texas. A window installer in Utah. A construction firm in Florida that grew 65%
The gap is accelerating and most companies don't feel it yet
@BullTheoryio What’s happening here is less about Japan “normalizing,” and more about a global capital reallocation mechanism kicking in. In practice, even a small shift in relative yields can redirect massive institutional flows, tightening conditions elsewhere without any policy change.
@reidhoffman Well said—the real shift is from static software to adaptive systems. Code generation lowers entry, but durability comes from integration, data, and continuous optimization. In that sense, AI doesn’t kill SaaS—it raises the bar from product to evolving service.
@elonmusk The interesting shift isn’t autonomy itself, but trust transfer. Once users stop intervening, responsibility moves from driver to system. The real inflection point is not capability, but when liability, regulation, and user behavior align with that shift.
@World_Insights1 This isn’t a decline—it’s a collapse in flow. Once throughput drops this sharply, the system shifts from price adjustment to allocation and rationing. The real signal is not the count itself, but how long it stays near zero.
The pattern isn’t just capability growth—it’s vertical integration of intelligence into infrastructure. Compute, energy, distribution, and agents are collapsing into one stack, turning AI from a tool into a system. The real competition shifts from models to who controls the full loop.
@elonmusk Impressive, but safety ratings are a moving target shaped by standards as much as engineering. The real question is whether this advantage persists once competitors optimize for the same criteria, or if it’s a temporary edge from being early to the new rule set.