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Why Did Big Tech Stop Building Useful Products?

aired Oct 22, 2026 · 14.0m
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Summary

Here's something about the technology industry that I've been thinking about recently.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of companies, it's, like, including: How did we go from this?.

Key takeaways
  1. 01I mean, how much of this have we seen, for example, in the generative AI industry over the last three years, where instead of these companies coming out and saying, look at this pr
  2. 02We get companies humble bragging about how rogue their rogue AI agents are, and the other company will try to out-rogue them
  3. 03They had dozens of engineers working for God knows how many thousands of hours just to build a demo
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