No, that's not correct. There are two types of business. One wants to be steadily growing, but the other wants to move fast and break things and either succeed or fail quickly.
They were talking about vendors, not the business themselves. Even if you are a move at speed of light and break all things org in SF, you wouldn't expect the same sort of behavior from your business vendors like AWS etc. You want reliability and consistency to ensure your own business doesn't have to constantly get rekt by their plans
altmanaltman is correct, I was talking about vendors. If you rely on a vendors service for your own business, you want it to be consistent. How can you plan around and rely on something that is inconsistent?
Your vendors plans to grow fast and break things shouldn’t affect your ability to provide your service to your customers.
Anthropic has not been a reliable vendor. Previously, when they were compute starved, the quality of their models degraded in the weeks before new releases, without warning to their customers. You just suddenly got a worse service. I wrote a little more a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47375818
And then there’s the transparent downgrading they did with Fable.
If your running a business, that’s not what you want to be relying on.
Just like we take unreliable machines and make a reliable system by load balancing and fail over we can do with vendors.
Any sane company should not be too deeply tied to any one AI vendor at the moment and be ready and able to switch with a timeline and cost as acceptable to the org.
Sure but that adds a lot of complexity and cost to your business. It’s much simpler and safer to just work with more reliable vendors to begin with. Why build on quicksand when there’s rock available?