Benedict Evans

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

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It's like the people who will go and hunt for the cool tool and hunt for the way to change the D Day work.
Yes.
And then and then coding.
And coding.
And coding is the one where it really, really works.
And it's funny to kind of ask, like to kind of cross matrix like
The places where this is getting used and not used, how much of that is about the nature of the job and how much of that is about the nature of people?
Mm.
Um like no one you know, the adoption in law is at the bottom of all the charts.
Some of that is that law firms are notorious late at late adopters of tech.
Some of it is it is much harder to see how many you you would use this in a law firm.
Because there's a huge difference between a legal brief that looks right and a legal b brief that is right.
Um
On the other hand, the software development.
And it's very, very easy to use this in software development and everyone in software like adopts a new thing immediately.
Um the the the analogy I've that that's been floating around I think is is to is to compare this with AWS in the sense that AW AWS was a sort of an order of magnitude change in how easy you could get a startup out of the door.
Because you didn't need to write all this stuff yourself and buy infrastructure.
And so it may be that like the that f if nothing else, GPTs are um
Like an order of magnitude changing what it costs to get software out of the door.
I mean I'm kind of curious what you're what you're seeing in your companies, but obviously there was that eye catching quote from YC a couple of years.
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