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by hardwaresofton 391 days ago
You can’t have it both ways. You can’t claim it’s only luck and acknowledge this truth:

> with his only real successes coming from spending his company’s fortune to acquire other people’s successful ventures—Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus.

There is clearly skill involved on top of the initial luck (and likely before it).

Meta has clearly made mistakes but it didn’t get to where it was by accident.

The decision to open source models was something others weren’t planning to do and absolutely changed the atmosphere. It’s either visionary or an incredible competitive move, or both.

Also, seems like this article was written by AI, the repetition gave it away.

AI is actually getting quite good