[PaulHoule]

I worked for a company that was working on foundation models for enterprise data just at the time that the first papers came out on BERT, which I have to admit, I didn't grasp the impact of at the time.

I remember the weird specificity of the solutions we were building, and in the dark times when other employees lost faith I'd tell them that our solution could deliver enough value that we'd likely be bought by one of our customers, which is what happened.

[clharman]

Interesting that now, in contrast, startups are desperate to claim any specificity at all for differentiation, with the general solutions being so powerful