Stra8Dave

Slack is going to be the interface for AI in the enterprise. And Perplexity Computer fits in very naturally into that interface. The next multi billion dollar and trillion dollar companies are all running on Slack and will see more tasks delegated to AIs than humans.

This will be the first Prometheus of many. Gigantic statues are gonna be everywhere!

there’s a set of strange little fictions that tech has chosen to believe as some sort of basis set for the perceived morality of their work chief amongst these is the idea that the legal system doesn’t exist, and when it does, it’s a precise mechanistic process tech is “positive sum” and a “community” which means you pretend that the standard weapons that exist for the modern corporation-coercive litigation, ip blocking and trolling, standard white shoe law firm stuff- is “negative sum” or “something bad we don’t do here” this leads to a weirdly formalist view of the legal process. that we must avoid it at all costs, but if we must engage in it, then it’s a fair and repeatable process that must necessarily yield if not the truth, then at least the same outcome repeatedly and provably. it’s this instinct that gives you Anthropic’s odd contract formalism. this is how you end up thinking your best move is to show your cards at the forefront, and thinking you’ve won the hand. there’s incredible potential for outperformance available to you for betraying any of these silly norms that tech uses to feel good about itself. the modern corporation must avail itself of all possible edge, and holy wars require holy weapons, so get busy.

This is probably the canonical example of silicon valley intellectual circles having huge blind spots on how the rest of the world works

I honestly don’t know what the fuck Dean Ball is talking about or why he’s doing this bit where he feigns being shocked and appalled that the military requires total compliance with controls standards for information systems, as though it’s some unprecedented and political move

Technical founders: hiring salespeople is where you will most likely get wrecked.