OpenAI just launched a $4 billion consulting company.
The company that was supposed to be the tool is now competing with the people who sell the tool.
Every consulting firm that built an 'AI practice' in the last two years just became a competitor of their own supplier.
@MoveDecisions Benchmarks aren't reality, until the human in the loop trust gap is bridged, an AI's accuracy percentage is secondary to its failure mode
@Pickmodels Asymmetry in 2026 lives in the infrastructure layer if you aren't looking at India's "CoreWeave" moment, you're just looking at the rear view mirror
Startups used to flex office spaces.
Now they flex how few employees they have while still hitting crazy revenue numbers.
AI is making βsmall team, massive outputβ the new status symbol in tech.
@Prathkum the wrapper era is real but the interesting thing is the infrastructure layer underneath it is more complex than anything in 2020 the simplicity on top is hiding an insane amount of engineering underneath, the startups building for the wrapper economy are the ones doing the work
@jwatte@xwanyex exactly, writing the code was never the hard part at scale, it's the architecture decisions, the edge cases, the coordination, none of that compresses 100x just because generation got faster
@stats_feed spending millions in compute because people are being polite to a chatbot is genuinely one of the more unexpected infrastructure problems in tech history
@Prathkum cursor didn't kill vs code; it just inherited the body and gave it a much higher IQ. The transition from "text editor" to agent harness happened so fast we barely noticed the switch
@AndrewYang the productivity gains have to go somewhere, the question is whether the political will to redistribute them shows up before the displacement does