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I've been saying this a lot over the past year as people obsess over 'moats' and whether a future model will make an idea obsolete, or whether it's even worth getting into something because Big Co is already working on it, or will be working on it:

You learn by doing.

There's so much value in actually making something. People forget how much is in the details, or how much something like good design can differentiate.

You can sit on the sidelines forever thinking that your idea isn't 'different' enough, but the ones actually making stuff, listening to users, gaining the end-to-end experience, will actually have a larger 'luck surface area'.

Even if your idea gets taken, or someone comes along and does it better, or cheaper – there's value in _trying_.

Specifically regarding AI: the models existed for quite a while, for free, for anyone to use in OpenAI's Playground. But suddenly they hooked it up to a chat UI and it blew up completely. You never know what the key thing is going to be. But if you sit around forever, you're guaranteeing failure.