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I agree with most of the premises in this article. It reminds me of one of my favorite seminal a16z articles: https://a16z.com/2020/02/16/the-new-business-of-a
by yowlingcat 6y ago
I agree with most of the premises in this article. It reminds me of one of my favorite seminal a16z articles:
https://a16z.com/2020/02/16/the-new-business-of-ai-and-how-its-different-from-traditional-software/ https://a16z.com/2020/02/16/the-new-business-of-ai-and-how-i...
Basically, a16z argue that AI businesses by default are closer to consultingware than software companies because their data hungry nature works to impede rather than enable unit economics. I find this to be broadly accurate. Many of the existential challenges facing a would be AI implementation include data unit economics and domain validation -- the 0-1 product problems, not the 1-1000 problems.
- dpflan 6y agoWhile looking up more about the author of the post, you'll find that he is the "CTO at MicroscopeIT" (https://twitter.com/szopa?lang=en https://twitter.com/szopa?lang=en), which upon further link-clicking appears to be what you say: "consultingware" (https://www.microscopeit.com/ https://www.microscopeit.com/) [But I don't see him listed there...]