[kyle_grove]

Honestly, I think the mode that will actually occur is that incumbent businesses never successfully adopt AI, but are just outcompeted by their AI-native competitors.

[djtango]

Yes this is exactly how I see it happening - just like how Amazon and Google were computer-native companies

[joquarky]

And Sears had all the opportunity to be Amazon

[red-iron-pine]

Sears also did everything it could to annihilate itself while dot-com was happening.

their CEO was a believer of making his departments compete for resources leading to a brutal, dysfunctional clusterfuck. rent seeking behavior on the inside as well as outside.

[EQYV]

Sounds kinda like Amazon..

[Terr_]

And some, both new and old, will collapse after severely misjudging what LLMs can safely and effectively be used for.

[suraci]

it looks like a variant of Planck's principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle