people over-rate how much software/IP is useful in running a successful business. There are genuinely very few IP in this world that needs to be protected. Everyone else is running stupid CRUD apps

They also over index fear of LargeCo stealing IP from SmallCo. In fact, LargeCo is typically more scared about even the possibility of any product team looking at competitor internals due to lawsuits.

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hnlmorg 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I’d be more scared of a data leak due to LargeCo being hacked than I would about LargeCo prying into the data.

What I don’t trust LargeCo with is personal information. I’ve heard too many horror stories about Govs and LargeCos swapping customer nudes or stalking ex’s to be comfortable with anything personal on those systems. But that’s a whole different topic.

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switchbak 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

LargeCo is probably struggling under the weight of technical debt and organizational challenges/politics.

I bet if you gave them the Codebase of the Gods, it’d be a heap of hacks inside a couple months.

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tsunamifury 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You could not be more wrong in the aggregate.

Literally how LLMs will continue to learn to code and easily replace whatever you build with them.

Incredible that you could so blithely misunderstand this

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sly010 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> people over-rate how much software/IP is useful in running a successful business

Indeed, by a couple trillions...

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noncoml 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

How can you make such bold and generic claims without some data backing it?

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ai-x 2 hours ago | parent [-]

actuaries look for data. visionaries take leaps in faith. There was no data proving LLMs will work at scale. Google waited for the Data. OpenAI and then Anthropic took the leap of faith. The result is there for all to see. The core attribute of a successful AI Researcher was were they AGI-pilled and not were they waiting for data for unknown unknowns?

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bob1029 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Trust and liability are the actual currency in a software business.

Your email domain is significantly more important than whatever is in your corporate GitHub repositories.