The weird thing is that we learned this lesson in the dot com era, and then there was a reactionary shift to self-funding, and now we've forgotten; I guess that's just the nature of human generations.
The really odd, undelivered thing about LLMs is that if they are as productive as they seem, software people simply should not need VCs. Because you can self-fund a massive team of AI developers, you should be able to get your product ready for market in absolutely no time, and you should more or less be able to roll it out with nothing more than a tiny amount of seed capital and a suburban garage.
The really odd, undelivered thing about LLMs is that if they are as productive as they seem, software people simply should not need VCs. Because you can self-fund a massive team of AI developers, you should be able to get your product ready for market in absolutely no time, and you should more or less be able to roll it out with nothing more than a tiny amount of seed capital and a suburban garage.