What this reinforces is that unlike with previous big innovations (cloud, iphone, etc), incumbents will not sit on their laurels with the AI wave. They are aggressively integrating it into their products which (1) provides a relatively cheap step function upgrade and (2) keeps the barrier high for startups to use AI as their wedge.
I attribute the speed at which incumbents are integrating AI into their products to a couple things:
* Whereas AI was a hand-wavey marketing term in the past, it's now the real deal and provides actual value to the end user.
* The technology and DX with integrating w/products from OpenAPI, SD, is good.
* AI and LLMs are capturing a lot of attention right now (as seen easily by how often they pop up on HN these days). It's in the zeigeist so you get a marketing boost for free.
I attribute the speed at which incumbents are integrating AI into their products to a couple things:
* Whereas AI was a hand-wavey marketing term in the past, it's now the real deal and provides actual value to the end user.
* The technology and DX with integrating w/products from OpenAPI, SD, is good.
* AI and LLMs are capturing a lot of attention right now (as seen easily by how often they pop up on HN these days). It's in the zeigeist so you get a marketing boost for free.