Darren LI

I think the most sustainable way to make progress is to make BYOC the most convenient option, for the typical user and the typical developer. On the desktop, it’s convenient for a developer to work with the user’s existing filesystem. On the web today, there’s no user-controlled filesystem, so it’s usually easiest to just put the data in a database... See more

There are over 180,000 extensions on the Chrome store, and nearly half of all Chrome users have browser extensions installed. When people have an easy way to extend their software with useful functionality, they apparently take advantage.

2. The new stack for these applications centers on language model APIs, retrieval, and orchestration, but open source usage is also growing.

Livestream sellers put forward their point of view and editorial eye on the products they select and evaluate. Facebook Shops and Tik Tok Shopping similarly give opportunity to sellers of all stripes to set up their shops.

This is a much different paradigm than paying a tool like ChatGPT $20/month. I'm sometimes spending $200+ a day on tasks for my AI Task-Employees and it gives me superhuman efficiency.

The key to this business model is the ready availability of cheap English-speaking labor around the globe.

This is also why some languages tend to become predominant over others: whenever a network of people is well connected, they need a single protocol to communicate. That’s called a language. The more people interact, the more they need a single language to do so, and the more a main language prevails. This is why English will become the lingua franc... See more