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Bubble or not, AI is eating everything, not just YC. In particular, I've noticed the topic of AI is eating up corporate meetings, turning them into a kind of h
by cs702 1y ago
Bubble or not, AI is eating everything, not just YC.
In particular, I've noticed the topic of AI is eating up corporate meetings, turning them into a kind of human slop.
- ghaff 1y agoAI (or specifically LLM-related) seems to have sucked so much oxygen out of the room that it's harder to focus on other things. I moved on about 18 months ago and I'd like to work as an analyst again on some other things but AI seems to pretty much dominate the conversation. I'm not disinterested in AI but it seems to simultaneously be the topic with the most interest and the most noise.
- skeeter2020 1y agoI've been exhausted by this for at least a year, so much so that (for a big part) I left my good job in August. The past 7 weeks have been amazing!
- ghaff 1y agoI'm not sure I'm exhausted but, given a bunch of other things going on (that have been exhausting), I've been less inclined to keep as involved in tech as I would otherwise have done. Probably do a reboot after the holidays and decide what I want to do (or not).
- jsheard 1y agoAccording to The Information (which is hard-paywalled unfortunately) venture capital as a whole is set to run out of money in 18 months if things continue at the current pace. AI companies had better turn profitable sharpish.
- Imustaskforhelp 1y agoHow would that even work to be profitable? I don't see a way on how they can suddenly become profitable if I can be honest when the fundamental economics of the thing seems a little broken to me...
- minimaxir 1y agoAdditional revenue services aside from selling LLM tokens, such as the commerce play OpenAI announced yesterday.
- skeeter2020 1y agoWe're all in trouble but OpenAI more so if they're depending on consumer spending (specifically via AI) to float the general economy - let alone theirs.
- htrp 1y agoarticle link ?
- jsheard 1y agohttps://www.theinformation.com/articles/dry-powder-running-spvs-may-lifeline https://www.theinformation.com/articles/dry-powder-running-s... Summarized by Ed Zitron: The Information recently published some worrying data from venture capitalist Jon Sakoda — that “at today’s clip, the industry would run out of money in six quarters,” adding that the money wouldn’t run out until the end of 2028 if it wasn’t for Anthropic and OpenAI.
- anonzzzies 1y agoCorporate meetings were never not slop though. I can count the actually useful ones in my 35 year career on 1 hand.