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Where the idea comes from.
The site is a shorter, plainer version of these. They are longer, they have sources, and each one ends with the conditions under which it is wrong. Read them in order if you have an hour; the fourth one alone if you have ten minutes.
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AI Means Ambient and Invisible
The test for a real agent is that you do not have to keep talking to it; it runs on a heartbeat, does the work, and you know it is working because the work is done.
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The industry is pricing a chatbot like a media subscription, but the product people will buy is intelligence that runs while they sleep, and that gets paid like the phone bill.
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The intelligence bill is not a new line item but the one that eats the others, which reprices the software industry and means nobody will buy "AI for" anything; every person has one AI, and it is theirs.
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Most people will pay a frontier company directly, because everything new appears at the source first, every layer in between holds leverage over you, and only the source ever feels like yours.
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"There's an app for that" was a store's slogan; the next era's slogan has no store in it, and it applies to a company exactly the way it applies to you.
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A case study of a fifteen-year-old feature with a subscription, and what it did when every model could do the feature for free.
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