the oai stance reeks of sama’s skillful plausible deniability and it is not obvious the outcome would have been better had levent joined the talks (which it seems like ant understands)
@ptrschmdtnlsn fantastic post. i will say that the argument for startups makes more sense in todays world where pre-ipo liquidity is common. if your equity is unsellable then it could either depreciate from the high water mark pre-ipo, or be locked up when you could make higher return elsewhere
this genre of game (incremental numberslop, explicitly advertised as short) seems like fertile ground for AI-assisted production. you could probably build a harness to churn out one per day.