[rcarmo]

As someone who is regularly involved in startup valuations, I think there’s quite a few million-dollar ideas in there—if not as standalone products, then at least as differentiation features for existing categories.

I recently gave one of my teen kids Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age to read, and we’ve both been commenting on how much smarter some “things” could be instead of everyone churning out a slightly different way to “chat with your data and be locked in to our platform”.

And I think this is why I’m so partial to Apple’s slow, progressive, under the covers integration of ML into its platform-input prediction, photo processing, automatic tagging, etc. we don’t necessarily need LLMs for a lot of the things that would improve computer experiences.