2010s: that’d be a good tweet 2020s: that’d be a good prompt - Balaji Srinivasan

Midwit writing used to be woke.
Now midwit writing is all AI.
“It’s not this, it’s that.”
A superintelligence, yet midwit.

You cannot automate something until you’ve done it manually many times. Control all of the factors and show technology cuts costs. Remember, for many legacy companies, information technology is only a cost center. They only adopted the code. You were born in it, molded by it. A full-stack entrant into a new vertical is formidably protean. You can morph your product just by hitting keys. Tesla’s over-the-air updates for its cars are a fantastic example.

Distinguishing social consensus from truth is really important because they’re not the same.