Benedict Evans

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941 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2025 last heard May 2025

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You've got people who are saying this is all
None of it works, it's completely useless, which is just really a stupid thing to say.
There are hundreds and hundreds of companies who've already got this in production doing stuff that's really useful, but at the same time it's not good at everything.
And there's a bunch of stuff that it really can't do yet.
You can't just kind of pretend that's not there by saying, well, it's getting better all the time.
What do you mean better?
Much buzz in tech around perplexity, they don't break the top hundred in the app store.
Why is ChatGPT at the top of the App Store chart and has been for a year?
It's kind of a distribution and brand and reach story.
Enterprise reality checks and the agent hype cycle.
I'm puzzled by AI agents.
I struggle to see why this isn't just like the models are a bit better now.
These agent demos where they don't do all these multi-stage things, it's not a real demo.
It's not working.
And why doom
Terrorism fizzled.
They invited all the Doomers to Davos in 2024.
And they listened to them and saw these people are idiots and didn't invite them back.
They were all really clever people who told each other how clever they were and constructed these logically flawless.
Um, well it's funny, I don't think we do, to be honest.
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