> AppStore would be dead on arrival

Certainly not. PMF was already established via the jailbreaking scene and Installer.app / Cydia. Millions of people went through the annoying processing of jailbreaking their phone to get apps.

If you’re saying that economics is a foundational driver of progress, then yes - almost by definition.

Banks and investors provide liquidity to the system, which is just one of many things the market demands.

Yes, this is a fundamental weakness with LLMs. Unfortunately this is likely unsolvable because the search space is exponential. Techniques like beam search help, but can only introduce a constant scaling factor.

That said, LLM reach their current performance despite this limitation.

They fall under a few buckets: Driver:

- node-postgres

- node-mysql2

Query Builder / Other thin clients: - knex - kysely - slonik ORM: - TypeORM - MikroORM - Objection.js - DrizzleORM - Prisma (actually runs a separate binary)

Its a two sided marketplace and companies only care about the conversion they get from different channels. If demand dries up, it will be reflected in more attractive pricing - I don’t think it’s likely that the entire market pulls out.

FWIW - it seems like the campaigns are working. You seem to be familiar with the brands and someone below chimed in on how one particular brand is great. Multiply that by the viewership - that’s definitely a win.

Some quick (unverified) research tells me that YouTuber marketing pays somewhere in the range of 30-70 CPM. You can pretty easily calculate that against google AdWords with reasonable conversion assumptions to decide if it’s worth it.

My point is that in a healthy market, we'd expect a large number of sponsors and a large number of creators. What we seem to have in reality is a tiny number of sponsors and a large number of creators. Where are all the sponsors? Nearly my whole YouTube subscriptions list lives at the whim of basically three sponsors. If, indeed, they decide to cut their spend, the creators will all essentially have to accept it because there aren't a lot of other sponsors to choose from. It doesn't have to be a full withdrawal from sponsorships for it to be devastating for creators.

Css modules would be great, except there’s bad tooling in VSCode. Autocomplete through Typescript is the killer feature of Panda / Vanilla extract, not that you can style.

I was thinking about this too, but the wife of an actor and someone two years out of her masters were not the caliber people that should have been on the board of an $80B company.

I would expect people with backgrounds like Sheryl Sandberg or Dr. Lisa Sue to sit in the position. The two replaced women would have looked like diversity hires had they not been affiliated with an AI doomer organization.

I hope there’s diversity of representation as they fill out the rest of the board and there’s certainly women who have the credentials, but it’s important that they don’t appear grossly unqualified when they sit next to the other board members.

Sheryl Sandberg’s sense of ethics and moral compass are highly questionable.

Firing a CEO is an extraordinary measure only taken in dramatic situations. Yes, the board can do it, but the legal and reputation risks are such that at the very least you let the CEO resign and pass the torch down.

You’re right - the board construction is remarkably bad. Seems like it was a classic case of centralizing power by stuffing the board with relative nobodies.

newsflash, most of society works exactly like this.

er...have you looked at the boards of most startups?

it's VCes and mates, not highly qualified people in implementing that particular product area.

It’s incredibly common in every East Asian coastal cuisine.

If you live near the coast, you can easily forage your own too.