Sherwin Wu: uncertainty

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…So your take here, just to make sure I fully understand it, is you think there's a much bigger opportunity outside of engineering for AI to impact productivity of companies and also jobs of these folks that are doing these kind of repetitive, easily automated tasks? Impact jobs and also just impact how work is done. So much of work is done in this way. Basically, I talk to customers all the time, big enterprises, like, "How will AI transform my company? How will it run in a world with AI in 20 years?" And software engineering is part of the story, but there's so much more on the business process side. And I actually think it might look even more different on the business process side and the work there is pretty substantial. It's actually interesting. I don't know if from an absolute percentage or absolute basis, I don't know if it's bigger or smaller than software engineering. Software is pretty huge and pretty expensive as well, but it is pretty massive and it's definitely bigger than... It's bigger than you would think it is based off of how people talk about it or don't talk about it on X or Twitter. Okay. And going in a slightly different direction, having built a platform, building the API, people building on API, the biggest question on people's minds is always just, how do I not have OpenAI squash my idea and build their own thing and then destroy this market I created? What's the general policy, what's the general philosophy of how startups should think about where OpenAI is unlikely to go?…

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