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Silicon Valley is not about having specialists or knowledge. It's about having connections and charisma.

Is this causing massive problems for us as a society? Of course, but no one seems to want to do anything about it, so here we are.

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I mean, what are you suggesting “someone” should do about it? The companies can spend their money however they want, and if they want to hire a bunch of product people from YC startups nobody can stop them.

I’m just surprised they need this many of them. What do they do all day? And who is left to manage their hundreds of thousands of servers?

A lot of the AI game is still integrations and getting entrenched in processes. It has the double whammy that you get to train on their data (not talking about ALL enterprise contracts - but cursor pretty explicitly has this business model. So I'd imagine some enterprise contracts have this.)

> What do they do all day?

Breeding product ideas? ChatGPT, but for dogs?

> And who is left to manage their hundreds of thousands of servers?

They learned from Elon how to get by with a skeleton crew?

I’m just surprised that the people actually keeping the business operating and the tokens flowing don’t resent these product people for sitting around all day coming up with ideas for the same TC package as the people putting out ops fires and bringing new capacity online all day every day. I feel like the actual engineers are probably getting shortchanged.

As with anything else, they may resent, but the check still cashes at the end of the week.

> What do they do all day?

AI for dogs.

> What do they do all day?

Same as they were doing in their startups: burn mon..., eh, tokens.

> And who is left to manage their hundreds of thousands of servers?

AI, of course.

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