Comment by sdevonoes
7 hours ago
> Now, did Garry Tan actually produce anything of value that week? I dunno, you’ll have to ask him.
Let’s not be naive. Garry is not a nobody. He absolutely doesn’t care about how many lines of code are produced or deleted. He made that post as advertisement: he’s advertising AI because he’s the ceo of YC which profitability depends on AI.
He’s just shipping ads.
"Follow the money" was always relevant, but especially when it comes to any kind of LLM news or investment-du-jour.
The cautionary/pessimist folks at least don't make money by taking the stance.
A few do.
At the extreme end you'll get invited to conferences but further down you could have other products you are pushing. Even non-AI related that takes advantage of your "smart person" public persona.