Thomas Ahle: belief

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…I know. I have to be careful because Notion are now sponsoring some ads. But no. They I actually use it a lot because it's got an amazing agentic interface. It's got like a CLI interface. So I I use it from, you know, from Claude. But what they want you to do is to pay them to use the agents that are built in at API prices. Yeah. And I don't really see the reason in doing that when I've just got a Notion MCP, I've got a Notion CLI. API prices stuff is really killing innovation, I think, in that space, right? I mean, think Codex, I think they are actually opening up more that you can use your accounts. I saw just yesterday, I think maybe also Anthropic opened up some that you could use some more, just like the SDK you can use with your accounts. But it's just like the price difference is so big that if you have to use API pricing, like nothing is competitive. Well, I mean, you know, we don't have to go too deep into this, but I think creativity is all about respecting constraints. And, I mean, you studied linguistics at Oxford, and Chomsky always says that there's a difference between linguistic competence and linguistic performance. So, you know, he's using this bulldozer analogy for ages, you know, he said that I love bulldozers too, they're great for clearing the snow, they're not a contribution to science. And he even said about Deep Blue that a computer winning at Deep Blue in the way it did is a little bit like a bulldozer winning the weight list, you know, weight lifting competition at the Olympics. I think it was in a way, like with Deep Blue. I mean, now maybe modern…

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