Eric Ries: I met the Anthropic team when they first left OpenAI. They were really committed to the idea that this new generative AI should be used and commercialized for the benefit of all humanity. The irony of this whole situation is one of their early backers was FTX. Vibe coding era is gonna be remembered for a Chernobyl-style disaster, is my prediction.
The transformer technology that is the basis of all modern LLMs was invented at Google. If you look at the co-authors of that paper, they all, every single one, had to leave and do it elsewhere. I know– When someone sends me an AI-generated thing, I always know it instantly. It’s always garbage. Too many people are excited about using AI to replace human creativity instead of augmenting it.
Andrew Warner: Eric Ries, who helped so many entrepreneurs build phenomenally successful businesses based on his lean startup philosophy, is back with a new book called Incorruptible, where he talks about why...