#mfbt — Public Fediverse posts
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A thread I was in elsewhere made me think of a broader topic I was to write about.
**Move Fast And Break Things Is A Recipe For Slow Progress**
#Capitalists are, ironically, bad at understanding how #capitalization works.
The current process we employ to create and design things turn every single thing we create into a huge liability.
Investors, in the #MFBT mindset, keep trying to make bigger and more powerful #LLMs. The reason the LLMs aren't working well isn't because the #LLM isn't smart enough, it's because YOUR FUCKING #API SUCKS!
It would be hard to overstate that massive cost that the proliferation of shitty #APIs has created.
I've seen one big #company (#BigTech) actually spend time and energy to make good APIs. From that we got #AWS.
They then imagined that it was clever #engineering and product management that made AWS a success, and stopped paying attention to their APIs.
Now AWS is as shitty as every other company.
The problem, at its core, is that #corporate #governance and corporate structures are designed to create a #Kakistocracy.
Investment is likewise a Kakistocracy. With #class signifiers being how you get #money to set up the shitty corporate structure.
Yes, I do in fact know how to make a Ship's #Computer from an LLM that can run on your #SmartPhone. The problem is that no one is ever going to give me the money it would take to do it.
Especially because it requires a lot of unsexy boring #work.
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