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At the centre Great customer service has always been a luxury only a Hermès or a Four Seasons could afford, and AI is what breaks the trade-off between its cost and its quality. Holds CBClay Bavor Read this korrent →

• Similar wording AI cannot get a product to the quality bar on its own, because it still works in the realm of averages. Holds DFDylan Field
• Similar wording AI's business results are lagging because organisations have a low tolerance for non-determinism, not because the models are not good enough. Holds SYSteve Yegge
• Similar wording People value a human-made good for the connection to its maker, which is why the premium disappears once five hundred copies exist. Holds AIAlex Imas
• Similar wording When the subsidies behind AI pricing run out, the companies that embraced AI programming will cut back on it. Holds NENeetCode
• Similar wording Every machine-learning deployment that has paid off so far left a person making the decision, which is the only reason imperfect models were useful. Holds CFChelsea Finn
• Similar wording A hardware startup's first customer should be a hyperscaler, because only that scale turns a design win into a business. Holds LTLip-Bu Tan
• Similar wording The chatbot has hit its ceiling — a smarter model no longer helps the average consumer — and that is a limit of the product, not of AI. Holds DADario Amodei
• Similar wording It is still early in AI go-to-market: the markets have not hardened and the good tools do not exist yet. Holds JLJason Lemkin